Meaning

5 senses
  1. A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.

    Schauer, Regen, Niederprasseln

  2. A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.

    There was what looked like a spatter of blood on one wall.

    Spritzer, Dreckspritzer, Dreckfleck

    the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface

  3. The sound of droplets hitting a surface.

    Trommeln, Prasseln

  4. (figuratively)A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.

  5. (figuratively)A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.

    1988, Don DeLillo, Libra, New York: Viking, Part 2, “12 August,” p. 270, The attendant had a droopy lower lip, a rust-tone complexion with a spatter of freckles across the cheekbones […]

Examples

14 sentences
  1. There were blood spatters on the wall.

    ruНа стене были кровавые брызги. — marafon

  2. Layla's body was spattered with blood.

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  3. He that praises himself, spatters himself.

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  4. Dan found blood spatter on the wall.

  5. A man was injured by lava spatter.

    deEin Mann wurde von Lavaspritzern versehrt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

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By meaning 3
a spray or shower of droplets:
a spot of a substance spattered on a surface:
the sound of droplets hitting a surface:

Origin

Probably from Middle Low German or Dutch spatten (“to spout, burst”) + -er (frequentative

Probably from Middle Low German or Dutch spatten (“to spout, burst”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Related to spit (“saliva”).

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Forms

plural: spatters
Singularspatter
Pluralspatters

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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