Past tense of spatter
regular verb
The past tense of spatter is spattered. The past participle is also spattered.
Forms of spatter
| Base form (V1) | spatter /ˈspætɚ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | spattered |
| Past participle (V3) | spattered |
| Present participle | spattering |
| Third person singular | spatters |
Spattered in a sentence
- When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
- He blew too hard and the tea spattered the skirt of Nurse Clock’s uniform.1965, William Trevor, chapter 8, in The Boarding House, King Penguin, published 1983, page 85
- He’s compensating you for an injury, not for purchasing your spattered unwearables.2009 January 25, Randy Cohen, “Truth in Suspension”, in New York Times. From the entry unwearable
- He'd been shot at point-blank range and expected to find the back of his head blown apart: bone fragments, spattered brains.2008, Craig Davidson, The Fighter, Soho Press, →ISBN. From the entry donkey punched
- He has no business in these political orders of magnitude, where erroneous loyalties can get your brain spattered over hotel bedrooms.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry explorer
Meaning of spatter
- verb To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- verb To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- verb To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
Questions about the past tense of spatter
- What is the past tense of spatter?
- The past tense of spatter is spattered.
- What is the past participle of spatter?
- The past participle of spatter is spattered.
- Is spatter a regular or irregular verb?
- Spatter is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spatter (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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