splatter

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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. 2

   A genre of gory horror.

   • splatter film; splatter movie
3. 3

   Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.

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   1. 4

      To splash

      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. 5

      To cause (something) to splatter.

      • He splattered paint onto the wall.
   3. 6

      To spatter (something or somebody).

      • The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!
      • Her wet hands […] splattered him with suds.

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