Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to spatter
Participle: spattered
Gerund: spattering
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | spatter |
| you | spatter |
| he;she;it | spatters |
| we | spatter |
| you | spatter |
| they | spatter |
Perfect
| I | have spattered |
| you | have spattered |
| he;she;it | has spattered |
| we | have spattered |
| you | have spattered |
| they | have spattered |
Past
| I | spattered |
| you | spattered |
| he;she;it | spattered |
| we | spattered |
| you | spattered |
| they | spattered |
Pluperfect
| I | had spattered |
| you | had spattered |
| he;she;it | had spattered |
| we | had spattered |
| you | had spattered |
| they | had spattered |
Future
| I | will spatter |
| you | will spatter |
| he;she;it | will spatter |
| we | will spatter |
| you | will spatter |
| they | will spatter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have spattered |
| you | will have spattered |
| he;she;it | will have spattered |
| we | will have spattered |
| you | will have spattered |
| they | will have spattered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | spatter |
| you | spatter |
| he;she;it | spatter |
| we | spatter |
| you | spatter |
| they | spatter |
Perfect
| I | have spattered |
| you | have spattered |
| he;she;it | have spattered |
| we | have spattered |
| you | have spattered |
| they | have spattered |
Imperfect
| I | spattered |
| you | spattered |
| he;she;it | spattered |
| we | spattered |
| you | spattered |
| they | spattered |
Pluperfect
| I | had spattered |
| you | had spattered |
| he;she;it | had spattered |
| we | had spattered |
| you | had spattered |
| they | had spattered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would spatter |
| you | would spatter |
| he;she;it | would spatter |
| we | would spatter |
| you | would spatter |
| they | would spatter |
Perfect
| I | would have spattered |
| you | would have spattered |
| he;she;it | would have spattered |
| we | would have spattered |
| you | would have spattered |
| they | would have spattered |
Imperative
| you | spatter |
| we | Let's spatter |
| you | spatter |
Verbs conjugated like 'spatter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'spatter'
patter,
scatter,
shatter,
slatter,
smatter,
splatter,
sputter,
swatter,
atter,
batter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To injure by aspersion.
- defame
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Probably from Middle Low German or Dutch spatten (“to spout, burst”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Related to spit (“saliva”). See: Dutch '
spatten'.
Verbs referencing "spatter"
English
spate.
Sample Sentences
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When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
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His axel-tree, and chariot wheeles, all spatterd with the blood
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Hurl’d from the steeds houes, and the strakes. [c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 20, p. 286:]
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The old Welshman came home toward daylight, spattered with candle-grease, smeared with clay, and almost worn out. [1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:]
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He began to blow at the surface of the tea. 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:]
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[…] she seem’d to have woven the Rainbow into a loose Robe, which being so rarified that she might be seen through it, and also spatter’d with radiant Jewells in the forms of Starrs […] [1660, Nathaniel Ingelo, Bentivolio and Urania, London: Richard Marriot, Book 2, pp. 79-80:]
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The low, whitewashed houses between the red and green acacia trees are spattered with shell-holes […] [1949, Arthur Koestler, Promise and Fulfilment, New York: Macmillan, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 218:]
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1955, Samuel Beckett and Patrick Bowles (translators), Molloy by Samuel Beckett, in Three Novels, London: Calder, 1994, p. 128,
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The roof’s serrated ridge, the single chimney-stack with its four flues, stood out faintly against the sky spattered with a few dim stars.
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Patches of light sifting through them [the trees] spattered the concrete walks with sunshine. [1960, Flannery O’Conner, chapter 6, in The Violent Bear It Away, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 2007:]
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Then they began to climb, steering to open uplands spattered with yellow cinquefoil […] [1996, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 19, in The Englishman’s Boy, New York: Anchor, page 178:]
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to spatter blood
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Perhaps ev’n I, reserv’d by angry Fate
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The last sad Relick of my ruin’d State,
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(Dire Pomp of sov’reign Wretchedness!) must fall,
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And stain the Pavement of my regal Hall;
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Where famish’d Dogs, late Guardians of my Door,
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Shall lick their mangled Master’s spatter’d Gore. [1720, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, Book 22, lines 92-97, p. 7:]
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O God, that I were in some wide field
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With nothing but my battle-axe and him
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To spatter his brains! [1877, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Harold, London: Henry S. King, act II, scene 2, page 70:]
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Streaks of DeHaven’s real face can be seen through the trademark face as the clown slams the hood shut in the spattered rain. [1989, David Foster Wallace, “Westward the course of empire takes its way”, in Girl with Curious Hair:]
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The cabman spattered his few words of English. [1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 12, in Aaron’s Rod, London: Martin Secker, page 139:]
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[…] they had seen him, at the sound of the alarm, rush like a madman from his window in Gant’s shop, leaving the spattered fragments of a watch upon his desk […] [1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner, Part 1, Chapter 8, p. 74:]
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[…] a man with a machine gun sits in a cage suspended from the ceiling and moving like a trolley spatters bullets into the cells. [1945, Henry Miller, “The Soul of Anaesthesia”, in The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, New York: New Directions, pages 88–89:]
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Make sure the pieces of fish are dry before you put them into the hot oil so that it doesn’t spatter.
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they fondly thinking to allay
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Thir appetite with gust, instead of Fruit
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Chewd bitter Ashes, which th’ offended taste
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With spattering noise rejected: [1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 564-567:]
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Where the headquarters tent sags, water drips down and spatters on the table. [1956, Langston Hughes, chapter 8, in I Wonder as I Wander, New York: Hill and Wang, published 1993, page 374:]
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Later, the two priests left together, […] their hoods pulled up because it had begun to spatter with rain. [1990, Edna O’Brien, “‘Oft in the Stilly Night’”, in Lantern Slides, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 17:]
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Most mornings he roasted lamb, turning it on a spit, where it spattered and dripped […] [1994, Paul Theroux, chapter 25, in Millroy the Magician, New York: Random House, page 220:]
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1647, John Hall, “A Genethliacon to the Infant Muse of his dearest Friend” in Poems, London: J. Rothwell,
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Let envy spatter what it can,
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This Embryon will prove a man.
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1728, John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Dublin: George Risk et al., Act II, Scene 13, “Good-morrow, Gossip Joan,” p. 42,
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Why how now, Madam Flirt?
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If you thus must chatter;
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And are for flinging Dirt,
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Let’s try who best can spatter;
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1770, George Saville Carey, “To a Friend” in Analects in Verse and Prose, London: P. Shatwell et al., Volume 2, p. 171,
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I Wrote a letter long ago,
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But did not like it, you must know,
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So rather chose to take my time,
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And write my own defence in rhime,
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Though not in your be-crabbed stile,
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To spatter, threaten, and revile;
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[…] there is nothing but may be represented upon some principle or other apparently worthy, without the wretched necessity of having recourse to spatter and vilify others. [1793, Charles Dibdin, chapter 9, in The Younger Brother, volume 3, London: for the author, page 143:]