[syn: splash, splashing]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Splash \Splash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Splashed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Splashing.] [Akin to plash.]
1. To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
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2. To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
splashing
n 1: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
[syn: spatter, spattering, splash, splashing,
splattering]
2: the act of scattering water about haphazardly [syn: splash,
splashing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "splashing":
affusion, aspergation, aspersion, babbling, baptism, bath, bathing,
bedewing, bubbling, burbling, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing,
drowning, flooding, guggling, gurgling, hosing, hosing down,
humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, lapping, laving,
moistening, plashing, rinsing, rippling, sloshing, sparging,
spattering, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submersion,
swashing, swishing, trilling, watering, wetting