SPLASHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does splashed mean? 

• SPLASHED (adjective)
  The adjective SPLASHED has 2 senses:

1. (of a fluid) having been propelled about in flying drops or masses

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

  Familiarity information: SPLASHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPLASHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a fluid) having been propelled about in flying drops or masses

Context example:

with clothes wet by splashed water

Similar:

distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)

Sense 2

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 

It has a short, hard, dense coat of pure white with characteristic black or liver colored spots randomly splashed over it.

(Dalmatian, NCI Thesaurus)

Then he struck a rock, bounded off, and splashed into the water.

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

At the Lymington River they splashed through the ford, and lay in the meadows on the further side to eat the bread and salt meat which they carried upon the sumpter horses.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You are splashed getting in and getting out; and the wind takes your hair and your bonnet in every direction.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Outside the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered against the windows.

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

A curling wave struck the side and splashed salt spray on my lips.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When they came out, he put the parcel under his arm with a more cheerful aspect, and splashed through the puddles as if he rather enjoyed it on the whole.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She is not an uneducated person, I should think, by her manner of speaking; her accent was quite pure; and the clothes she took off, though splashed and wet, were little worn and fine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When Mr Korbes came home, he went to the fireplace to make a fire; but the cat threw all the ashes in his eyes: so he ran to the kitchen to wash himself; but there the duck splashed all the water in his face; and when he tried to wipe himself, the egg broke to pieces in the towel all over his face and eyes.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There could not well be more ink splashed about it, if it had been roofless from its first construction, and the skies had rained, snowed, hailed, and blown ink through the varying seasons of the year.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)