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splattered

splattered is the simple past and past participle of splatter.

Meaning of splatter

Verb

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

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.
    • He splattered paint onto the wall.
  3. (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

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Questions about splattered

What is splattered the simple past and past participle of?
Splattered is the simple past and past participle of splatter.

Words near splattered in the dictionary

  1. splatterdashes
  2. splatterdashing
  3. splatterday
  4. splatterdock
  5. splatterdocks
  6. splattered
  7. splatterer
  8. splatterers
  9. splatterfest
  10. splatterfests
  11. splattergun

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