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Splattered   /splˈætərd/   Listen
Splattered

adjective
1.
Covered with bright patches (often used in combination).  Synonyms: dabbled, spattered, splashed.  "A blood-spattered room" , "Gardens splashed with color" , "Kitchen walls splattered with grease"






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"Splattered" Quotes from Famous Books



... shrubs. A little lake, long and narrow, glimmered in the sun at the rear. Further away stood the shacks of the Mexican workers, the corrals, wool sheds and shearing pens. To the right lay the low hills, splattered with dark patches of chaparral; to the left the unbounded green prairie blending against ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry

... mountain peaks—hundreds upon hundreds of them—rising one behind the other, stretching away in endless, serried rank until the eye swims and the mind staggers at the task of trying to count them; imagine them splashed and splattered over with all the earthly colors you ever saw and a lot of unearthly colors you never saw before; imagine them carved and fretted and scrolled into all shapes—tabernacles, pyramids, battleships, obelisks, Moorish ...
— Roughing it De Luxe • Irvin S. Cobb



Words linked to "Splattered" :   covered, spattered



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