spatter

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spat·ter /ˈspætə $ -ər/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]

SPREADif a liquid spatters, or if something spatters it, drops of it fall or are thrown all over a surface （使）洒落；（使）飞溅 SYN splatter

spatter somebody/something with something

The walls were spattered with blood.

墙上溅满了血。

spatter something on/over etc something

a sweatshirt with paint spattered over it

溅上了油漆的长袖运动衫

spatter on/across/over etc

The first drops of rain spattered on the stones.

雨点开始噼里啪啦地打在石头上。

—spatter noun [countableC]

Examples from the Corpus

spatter• Blood spattered across the floor.• Something spattered all over his face: he put up his hand and his fingers came away red.• More bullets spattered the front of the cottage, drilling lines back and forth in the stonework.• Better yet, set the egg in the bottle in the sink, and let the kids spatter with abandon.• No sooner had I thrown it into the toilet than it exploded and I was spattered with the pan's contents.• In a green robe, sunshine-splashed and spattered with the songs of thieving birds, you came sauntering between the vines.• Even at this distance I could see he was liberally spattered with yellow paint.• Was the smoke and the spattering worth the result?

spatter on/across/over etc• He retched, thin vomit spattering on the floor.• Then waited, shivering, as the rain tipped off the brim of his top hat and spattered on the ground.• Unframed slabs of spatter on the walls hinted at meanings it were safer not to pursue too closely.

Origin spatter

(1500-1600) Perhaps from Dutch spatten “to burst, flow out strongly”

spat·ter verb

Chinese

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