to speckle
15
3.9
- verb
- /ˈspɛkəl/
:
motear
- The fire had burned down to low embers, no more than dots of speckled red in the night.
- brown speckled
- white speckled
Examples
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Hawk's white medical jacket was speckled with the almost familiar colors of human suffering.
Fiction book (1990) -
Wilson was wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt and jeans speckled with white paint.
Fiction book (1990) -
- Look at that pretty little thing, cute as a speckled pup.
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Come on, kid, let's get some of those speckled beauties.
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You don't have any speckled birds, do you?
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Morning light yellowed the air and speckled the floor with the red and gold of the stained glass.
Fiction book (1995) -
Three steps and the speckled sky, and the low moon tangled up in the casuarina tree.
Fiction book (1994) -
The ground around them glittered with countless pieces of out-flung metal speckled with rust.
Fiction book (1991) -
Beth's car pulls into the parking lot of a picturesque, impeccably landscaped campus, speckled with colorful leaves.
Fiction book (1995) -
She decided to speckle the canvas with dots of vibrant paint for her new artwork.
Synonyms
46
2.2
To make a small mark or stain on something
39
3.0
To appear as small marks across an area, like stars in the sky
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
7.9
To make a picture or texture with many small dots
3
8.0
To make something have uneven spots or patches of color
1
5.6
To mark something with small spots
1
8.8
To cover with small drops or spots like mud and paint
To mark something with small spots
To put small spots of color over a surface like a shirt or wall
How Spotted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Speckle comes from the word speck, which means 'a tiny spot', so to speckle something is to cover it with many small spots or dots. That's why dew or paint can 'speckle' grass or a canvas.