spatterverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈspæt.ər/us/ˈspæt̬.ɚ/to drop small drops of liquid, etc. on a surface, or (of liquid) to fall, especially noisily, in small drops:
Two bikes raced by and spattered mud over our clothes.
The bikes spattered them with mud.
They could hear raindrops spattering on the roof of the car.
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Spreading and scattering
- all over the place idiom
- bedaub
- bestrew
- billow
- circulate
- fan out
- go round (somewhere)
- go/do the rounds idiom
- percolate
- radial
- radiate
- slap
- spread
- spread out
- sprinkling
- straggle
- stretch
- strew
- suffuse
- sweep
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spatter
noun [ C ] ukus