splatter
When liquid splatters, it hits something and makes many small drops.
To hit a surface and spread out in small drops, usually making a messy mark.
To splatter something is to splash it so it lands in many small drops.
To cause a liquid or soft substance to fall or be thrown onto a surface in scattered drops.
If something is splattered with a liquid, it has many small drops on it.
To have splashes of liquid or another substance on a surface, clothing, or a body, often in many small spots.
A splatter is a small messy mark made by liquid drops.
A small patch or spot of liquid or another substance that has landed and spread in drops.
A splatter is the sound of liquid hitting something in messy drops.
A noisy, messy sound made when a liquid or soft substance hits something and breaks into droplets.
- Base: splatter
- Plural: splatter, splatters
- Base: splatter
- 3rd Person Singular: splatters
- Present Participle: splattering
- Past: splattered
be splattered with
1be covered in messy drops
If you are splattered with something, it is on you in many small drops.
- By the time we arrived, we were splattered with mud.
- The chef’s jacket was splattered with sauce.
- My glasses were splattered with rain.
- I am splattered with paint.
- My shoes are splattered with mud.
splatter across
1splash from one side
To splatter across means to splash in drops across a surface.
- Rain splattered across the windshield as the storm hit.
- She splattered blue paint across the paper for a starry effect.
- Mud splattered across the hallway when the dog ran in.
- Rain splattered across the window.
- Paint splattered across the page.
splatter film
1gory horror movie style
A splatter film is a very gory horror movie.
- He loves classic splatter films from the 1980s.
- The director is known for making low-budget splatter films.
- It’s more of a splatter film than a psychological thriller.
- That movie is a splatter film.
splatter on
1land as drops on surface
To splatter on means to land on something in many small drops.
- Grease splattered on the tiles while the bacon cooked.
- She splattered paint on the canvas with quick flicks of her wrist.
- Mud splattered on the car as we drove past the field.
- Water splattered on the floor.
- He splattered sauce on his shirt.
splatter over
1splash across a surface
To splatter over means to splash over a wider area.
- The blender lid popped off and smoothie splattered over the counter.
- He splattered sauce over the plate to decorate it.
- Paint splattered over the drop cloth when the bucket fell.
- Coffee splattered over the table.
- Don’t splatter paint over the wall.
splatter paint
1paint using messy droplets
To splatter paint is to make paint drops land on a surface.
- They splatter-painted the backdrop to make it look like a galaxy.
- The workshop teaches you how to splatter paint onto fabric.
- Be careful not to splatter paint on the furniture.
- We splatter paint on paper.
- Don’t splatter paint on your clothes.