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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spatter \Spat"ter\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Spattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Spattering}.] [From the root of spit salvia.]
1. To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.
Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. --Burke.
2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. --Pope.
3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
spattered
adjective
1: covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease" [syn: {dabbled}, {splashed}, {splashy}, {splattered}]
2: spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs" [syn: {bespattered}, {besplashed}, {splashed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "spattered": bespeckled, blotched, blotchy, dotted, dusted, freckle-faced, freckled, freckly, macular, maculate, maculated, peppered, powdered, specked, speckled, speckly, splashed, splattered, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, studded
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