| 单词 | splatter |
| 释义 | splatter (once / 14122 pages) vn In horror movies, you'll see a lot of blood splattering on walls. Ick. To splatter is to splash liquid. A splatter is also the spot the liquid makes. When you spill some liquid on the ground, the sound it makes is splat. Splash a lot of it, and you have a splatter — drops of the liquid across a large area. If you are frying meat in a hot pan, the grease will splatter across the stove and counter near it. In the figurative use, gossip about a celebrity's mishaps is often splattered throughout a gossip magazine like spilled milk on a floor. WORD FAMILYsplatter: splattered, splattering, splatters+/splat: splats, splatted, splatter, splatting/splattering: splatterings USAGE EXAMPLESAnd the Highway Patrol said security footage caught two people splattering motor oil on the sidewalk and Capitol building on Halloween night. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Blood pooled on the floor and splattered the walls. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) But the outfit at the center of this story is the pink Chanel-like suit splattered in her husband’s blood. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1v dash a liquid upon or against Syn|Hypo|Hyper plash, spatter, splash, splosh, swash puddle make a puddle by splashing water slosh, slosh around, slush, slush aroundspill or splash copiously or clumsily disperse, dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle distribute loosely 2v cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container splatter water Syn|Hyper slop, spill disgorge, shed, spill cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over run out, spillflow, run or fall out and become lost displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 3n a small quantity of something moist or liquid a splatter of mud Syn|Hyper dab, splash small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude 4n the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively Syn|Hyper spatter, spattering, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) |
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