splatter

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ætə(r)

Noun

splatter (plural splatters)

1. An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

   He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.

2. (attributive) A genre of gory horror.

   splatter film; splatter movie

Translations

An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact

• French: éclaboussure (fr) f

• Russian: брызги (ru) (brýzgi) f pl 

Verb

splatter (third-person singular simple present splatters, present participle splattering, simple past and past participle splattered)

1. (intransitive) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

   The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.

2. (transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.

   He splattered paint onto the wall.

3. (transitive) To spatter (something or somebody).
   • 2012, Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise (page 100)

     Her wet hands […] splattered him with suds.

Translations

To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess

• Czech: vyšplíchnout (cs), cákat (cs)
• French: éclabousser (fr)

• Russian: плескать (ru) (pleskátʹ)  impf., брызгать (ru) (brýzgatʹ)  impf.

To cause something to splatter

• Czech: cákat (cs), cákat (cs), stříkat (cs)
• Czech: pocákat (cs)
• Russian: расплескать (ru) (raspleskátʹ)  pf.

• ǃXóõ: ɡǀxáʻa

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