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Pronunciation : Spat"ter
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [From the root of spit salvia.]
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Spat"ter
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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. Milton.

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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913