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spatterspat‧ter /ˈspætə $ -ər/ verb [intransitive, transitive] spatterOrigin: 1500-1600 Perhaps from Dutch spatten ‘to burst, flow out strongly’ VERB TABLEspatter |
Present | I, you, we, they | spatter | | he, she, it | spatters | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | spattered | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have spattered | | he, she, it | has spattered | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had spattered | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will spatter | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have spattered |
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Present | I | am spattering | | he, she, it | is spattering | | you, we, they | are spattering | Past | I, he, she, it | was spattering | | you, we, they | were spattering | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been spattering | | he, she, it | has been spattering | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been spattering | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be spattering | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been spattering |
- Blood spattered across the floor.
- Better yet, set the egg in the bottle in the sink, and let the kids spatter with abandon.
- Even at this distance I could see he was liberally spattered with yellow paint.
- In a green robe, sunshine-splashed and spattered with the songs of thieving birds, you came sauntering between the vines.
- More bullets spattered the front of the cottage, drilling lines back and forth in the stonework.
- No sooner had I thrown it into the toilet than it exploded and I was spattered with the pan's contents.
- Something spattered all over his face: he put up his hand and his fingers came away red.
- Was the smoke and the spattering worth the result?
► be spattered/splattered with blood (=covered with small spots of blood)· Today the only sign of violence is the walls spattered with blood. NOUN► blood· One of the young men had been hurt in a demonstration and his clothes were spattered with his blood.· She found her baby daughter crying, spattered with blood, and her husband dying on the floor.· Stretchers, beds and floors were spattered with blood. if a liquid spatters, or if something spatters it, drops of it fall or are thrown all over a surface SYN splatterspatter somebody/something with something The walls were spattered with blood.spatter something on/over etc something a sweatshirt with paint spattered over itspatter on/across/over etc The first drops of rain spattered on the stones.—spatter noun [countable] |