MEANING
Cover or mark something with small, scattered spots.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- speckle a surface
- speckled shell
On the page
Fine spray speckled the dark glass.
Word forms
- Base
- speckle
- Past tense
- speckled
- Past participle
- speckled
- Present participle
- speckling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- speckle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are speckling
- Present perfect
- have/has speckled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been speckling
- Past
- speckled
- Past continuous
- was/were speckling
- Past perfect
- had speckled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been speckling
- Future
- will speckle
- Future continuous
- will be speckling
- Future perfect
- will have speckled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been speckling
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: speckle; speckles; speckled; speckled; speckling 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: speckles.
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