splatter

/ˈsplætɚ/

splatter noun: an uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

Noun

splatter (countable and uncountable, plural splatters)

An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
- He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.
(attributive, uncountable) A genre of gory horror.
- splatter film; splatter movie
(uncountable) Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.

Verb

splatter (third-person singular simple present splatters, present participle splattering, simple past and past participle splattered)

(intransitive) 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.
(transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.
- He splattered paint onto the wall.
(transitive) 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!1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 59
- Her wet hands […] splattered him with suds.2012, Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise, page 100

splatter meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Vietnamese

splatter in Urdu

چھپاکے مارنا, چھینٹے اُڑانا, پھیلانا

splatter in Malayalam

to splatter: ചിതറുക citaṟuka

splatter in Vietnamese

To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess: bắn tung tóe

Examples of splatter in a sentence

After cooking the thanksgiving turkey we appreciate the self-cleaning oven as it gets really hot and burns off the splattered grease.
In his zany prop comedy Gallagher would sometimes smash watermelons and splatter the front rows of the audience.
With them were several splotches of dried blood splattered across the dirt.

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Forms of splatter

Noun
plural	splatters
Verb
third-person singular present	splatters
present participle	splattering
past participle	splattered
past	splattered

Past tense of splatter: splattered

Plural of splatter: splatters

Origin of splatter

Uncertain. Emerged 1780s.https://www.etymonline.com/word/splatter Possibly a blend of splash + spatter.

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Phrases with splatter

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Questions about splatter

What does splatter mean?: Splatter means an uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
What is splatter in Urdu?: Splatter in Urdu is چھپاکے مارنا, چھینٹے اُڑانا, پھیلانا. See Splatter meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is splatter?: Splatter can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce splatter?: Splatter is pronounced /ˈsplætɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of splatter?: The plural of splatter is splatters.

Words near splatter in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: splatter (page history and authors); splatter (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ചിതറുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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