to splash
16
4.1
- verb
- /splæʃ/
:
salpicar
- I held tight past that day, that neon-splashed room, the procession of both fledgling and comfortably rooted writers.
- splashed with color
Examples
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Her hair was long and brown and splashed in an unruly cascade about her face and neck.
Fiction book (1990) -
The buttered toast was too brown and was splashed with orange juice.
Fiction book (1997) -
Just clean it up a little bit, splash some paint around.
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You think you can just splash up some paint and rearrange the furniture, and everything will be all right.
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In the Keweenaw, the hardwoods make a tunnel of splashing color above the road.
Academic text (2007) -
KEN is considering a car; a price sticker is splashed across its windscreen.
Fiction book (1991) -
Darcy exclaimed when she saw the colors splashed on the sparkling snow.
Fiction book (1999) -
She decided to splash some color on the old fence to make it look lively again.
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The artist loves to splash vibrant hues onto the canvas to create an exciting contrast.
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He wanted to splash the walls of his room with different shades of blue and green.
Synonyms
209
1.0
To send out small drops of liquid to cover something
51
4.1
To make liquid fall in small messy drops on a surface
15
3.9
To cover something with many small spots of a different color
14
5.0
To splash small drops onto a surface and make spots
10
6.0
To mark a surface with small spots of color or light
5
7.2
To make small spots of a different color on something
3
8.0
To make something have uneven spots or patches of color
2
5.3
To mark something with irregular spots of a different color
2
6.7
To put uneven marks of color or liquid on a surface
1
4.2
Put paint on a surface quickly without trying to be exact
1
5.6
To mark something with small spots
1
5.6
To make drops of liquid hit many places, like clothes or a table
1
8.9
To splash mud or water onto something and make it dirty
To put small spots of color over a surface like a shirt or wall
To paint quickly in a messy, uneven way
To splash small drops against a surface and make spots
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- US
A curved cover above a bike or motorcycle wheel that stops mud and water splashing on the rider
- US
A curved shield above a bicycle or motorcycle wheel that keeps mud and water off the rider
How Marked
Surface Forms
Etymology
Splash comes from the picture of water hitting a surface and throwing off scattered drops, so people used it for paint or light that falls in sudden, spotted patches. That's why we say a wall or hill is 'splashed' with color — it has quick, scattered marks like water drops.