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English Dictionary: spattered by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spattered
adj
  1. covered with bright patches (often used in combination); "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease"
    Synonym(s): dabbled, spattered, splashed, splattered
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. t. [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.
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