Spatter /(?)/
Spat·ter
Spatter
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering
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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.
- To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
- Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
Spatter
v. i.
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To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.
That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after.