SPATTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spattered mean? 

• SPATTERED (adjective)
  The adjective SPATTERED has 1 sense:

1. covered with bright patches (often used in combination)

  Familiarity information: SPATTERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPATTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with bright patches (often used in combination)

Synonyms:

dabbled; spattered; splashed; splattered

Context example:

kitchen walls splattered with grease

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

The left arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven places.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the driver pulled up his foam-spattered horse, he threw the reins to his companion, sprang from his seat, butted furiously into the crowd, and then an instant afterwards up went the hat which told of his challenge and defiance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists are eager to learn if the reddish-brown fractures, and other markings spattered across the surface, contain clues about the geological history of Europa and the chemistry of the global ocean that is thought to exist beneath the ice.

(NASA Issues 'Remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)

After a good day’s killing I have seen our decks covered with hides and bodies, slippery with fat and blood, the scuppers running red; masts, ropes, and rails spattered with the sanguinary colour; and the men, like butchers plying their trade, naked and red of arm and hand, hard at work with ripping and flensing-knives, removing the skins from the pretty sea-creatures they had killed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)