Usually means: Scatter small particles; lightly distribute.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word sprinkle:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprinkle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sprinkle, sprinkle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sprinkle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sprinkle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sprinkle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sprinkle, sprinkle: Wordnik
  7. sprinkle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sprinkle, sprinkle: Wiktionary
  9. sprinkle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sprinkle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sprinkle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sprinkle: Dictionary.com
  13. sprinkle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sprinkle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sprinkle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sprinkle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sprinkle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sprinkle: Rhymezone
  19. sprinkle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sprinkle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sprinkle: Free Dictionary
  22. sprinkle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sprinkle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sprinkle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sprinkle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sprinkle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprinkle, sprinkle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sprinkle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
verb:  (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
verb:  (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
verb:  (intransitive) To rain very lightly outside.
verb:  (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
noun:  A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
noun:  A light rain shower.
noun:  An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.
noun:  A small hard piece of sugar and starch, or chocolate, used to decorate cakes etc.
noun:  A surname.

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