Usually means: Droplets flung or scattered about.
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  1. spatter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spatter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spatter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spatter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spatter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spatter, spatter: Wordnik
  7. spatter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. spatter: Wiktionary
  9. spatter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spatter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spatter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spatter: Dictionary.com
  13. spatter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. spatter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Spatter (disambiguation), Spatter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Spatter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. spatter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. spatter: Rhymezone
  19. spatter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. spatter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. spatter: Free Dictionary
  22. spatter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. spatter: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  2. spatter: Legal dictionary

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  1. spatter: Encyclopedia

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  2. spatter: Medical dictionary

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  1. spatter: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spatter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Spatter: Urban Dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
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(Note: See spattered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
verb:  (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
verb:  (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive, figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.
noun:  A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
noun:  A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
noun:  The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
noun:  (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
noun:  (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.

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