MEANING
To throw or scatter liquid in small drops.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- spatter with mud
- rain spatters
On the page
Mud spattered the lower windows.
Word forms
- Base
- spatter
- Past tense
- spattered
- Past participle
- spattered
- Present participle
- spattering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- spatter
- Present continuous
- am/is/are spattering
- Present perfect
- have/has spattered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been spattering
- Past
- spattered
- Past continuous
- was/were spattering
- Past perfect
- had spattered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been spattering
- Future
- will spatter
- Future continuous
- will be spattering
- Future perfect
- will have spattered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been spattering
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: spatter; spatters; spattered; spattered; spattering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: spatters.
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