splatter

1. 1.

   cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container

   “spill the milk”

   “splatter water”

   Synonymsspillslop

   Broadermove
2. 2.

   dash a liquid upon or against

   “The mother splashed the baby's face with water”

   Synonymsspatterplashsplashsploshswash

   Broaderscatter

   Narrowerpuddleslosh

Other forms of splatter

plural

splatters·

past tense

splatterred·

present participle

splatterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about splatter

What does splatter mean?

splatter means "the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in splatter?

splatter has 2 syllables: splat-ter. The stress falls on "splat". In IPA it is /ˈsplætɚ/.

What is another word for splatter?

Close synonyms include spatter, spattering, splattering, sputter, splutter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is splatter a common word?

splatter is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.