spattered

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

covered with bright patches (often used in combination)“waves dabbled with moonlight”“a blood-spattered room”“gardens splashed with color”“kitchen walls splattered with grease”Synonyms: dabbled splashed splattered

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.] [From the root of spit salvia.]

1.To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. [1913 Webster]

Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people.— Burke.[1913 Webster]

2.To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

3.Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner. [1913 Webster]