bespatter

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ spatter.

Verb

bespatter (third-person singular simple present bespatters, present participle bespattering, simple past and past participle bespattered)

1. (transitive) To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance.
2. (transitive) To soil by spattering.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend.

Translations

to sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance

• Finnish: pirskottaa, pirskotella
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• Interlingue:

to soil by spattering

• Finnish: roiskia, roiskuttaa (fi)
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to asperse with calumny

• Finnish: panetella (fi), herjata (fi)
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