to splotch
2
6.7
- verb
- /splɑtʃ/
:
manchar
- The artist splotched paint across the canvas in a frenzy of color.
- splotched red
- splotched face
- splotched with white
Examples
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When they arrived, Martin was on a gurney and covered with a white sheet splotched red.
Academic text (2011) -
Her face was red-splotched; her jowls shook as she talked.
Fiction book (1990) -
By the time he turned around, his white dress shirt was splotched raw brown.
Academic text (1999) -
Mason's skin, like his small hands, is splotched brown and pink.
Fiction book (1996) -
The skin on his face and hands had a dirty color, and the hands were splotched with dark freckles.
Fiction book (2000) -
His eyes were almost closed, his face was puffed and splotched, his skin was pasty.
Fiction book (1990) -
When Dad doesn't answer, she turns and glares at me, her face splotched and red above two narrow grocery bags.
Fiction book (1996) -
Barn and Yolanda come in with a man wearing a maroon windbreaker splotched with rain.
Fiction book (1994) -
He'd stopped shivering, though he was still shaky; his face had become ruddy and splotched.
Fiction book (1997) -
"Ezra's face hardly looked like his; everything was swollen out of shape, splotched with bruises, his hair sprouting unevenly.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
46
2.2
To make a small mark or stain on something
16
4.1
To put patches of color on a surface
15
3.9
To cover something with many small spots of a different color
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
4
2.4
To mark something with a colored liquid used for writing
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
1
5.6
To mark something with small spots
To mark something with small spots
Antonyms
How Patchy
Surface Forms
Etymology
To splotch is to make a 'messy mark'; think of splash, splat, and spot, so the verb means to cover something with uneven spots or blotches.