splatter
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈsplætər/
:
salpicadura
- A few drops miss the sink and splatter on the floor.
- blood splatters
- splatter of sauce
- paint splatters
I thought it was like a beat up train, but just paint splatters.
- I thought it was like a beat up train, but just paint splatters.
- This is the thing about the group talking about possible resuscitation and some splatter traces on the wall.
- Like why is there a huge paint splatter on your wall?
- You're like, holy shit, I recognize that same blood splatter effect.
- And, you know, they're all trying to get away from, you know, get away from the bomb to get out of the splatter zone before the bomb goes off.
- I've slept with my children who have had my babies and hair and coughing and splatter on me, Still haven't, still haven't had it.
- And it's kind of random where, you know, my teeth and tongue and lips all determine where that that splatter of yellow or green is kind of called right?
- It's about this guy who works for the police as like a splatter blood expert on crime scenes, but he himself is a serial killer as well.
- And it'll, it'll probably happen in dribs and drabs, splatters if you will.
Examples
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Like why is there a huge paint splatter on your wall?
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The chef noticed a splatter of sauce on the kitchen counter after preparing dinner.
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You gotta be careful of the splatter.
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It's just a splatter of feathers.
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But the forensics team did find evidence of a blood splatter.
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There's some splatter from painting, like house painting on it.
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Red and blue ink-blood splatters everywhere.
Fiction book (1998) -
An angry black-red splatter remained on the wall panel behind him, with long spindly lines dripping down.
Fiction book (2000) -
My knees buckled, and I wove my way to her, trying to sidestep the bloody splatters.
Fiction book (1990) -
Just as the disco tune playing in the Trans Am hits the next chorus, a fistful of pizza splatters across the windshield.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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1.0
The sound or action of liquid hitting a surface
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3.1
A very small amount of liquid used on something
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5.1
A wet, soft mark or sound made when something hits a surface
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Morphology
Etymology
Splatter comes from the simple sound word splat, made to copy the noise a wet thing makes when it hits a surface. So a splatter is a small, messy drop or spot left by liquid when it falls or hits something.