bespatter
/bɪˈspatə
/verb [with object]
Splash drops of a liquid substance all over (an object): his elegant shoes and trousers were bespattered with mud...
- He coughed out blood and more blood bespattered us.
- Only in some hollow of a larger tree on the sheltered side may be seen a few scattered leaves of some close-clinging creeper, or the hardy leaves of the tataramoa, bespattered with mud.
- You were so bespattered with mud that I thought you were some old farmer.
Synonyms
splatter, spatter, splash, speck, fleck, mark, spot, muddy, dirty, soil, smear, stain, sully, bedaub, begrime, befoul, besmirch;
Scottish & Irish slabber
informal splotch, splodge, splosh
Rhymes
- Castel Gandolfo
- castellan
- castellated
- castellation
- castellations
- Castell-Nedd
- caste mark
- caster
- caster sugar
- cast-for-age
- castigate
- castigation
- castigative
- castigator
- castigatory
- Castile
- Castile soap
- Castilian
- Castilla-La Mancha
- Castilla-León
- casting
- casting couch
- casting director
- casting vote
- cast iron