as in to splash
to wet or soil by striking with something liquid or mushy
the house painters accidentally splattered my car with paint
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The eagle was also splattered with red paint years ago.
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The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Two more photos depict the pigeon’s unfortunate end—bleeding from a slit in its neck, leaving droplets of blood splattered on the falconer’s pristine thawb.
—M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
Among its grantees are Just Stop Oil, which threw the tomato soup and glued the Vermeer; Last Generation, which splattered the mashed potatoes on the Monet; Zepeda’s group, Declare Emergency; and the Social Change Lab, which conducts research on activism.
—Michelle Weber, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2024
The traditional Lebanese houses with green shutters and red-tiled roofs were now splattered with mustard-yellow signage for OMT, one of the services the diaspora relies on to send money home from abroad.
—Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Two more photos depict the pigeon’s unfortunate end—bleeding from a slit in its neck, leaving droplets of blood splattered on the falconer’s pristine thawb.
—M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
Among its grantees are Just Stop Oil, which threw the tomato soup and glued the Vermeer; Last Generation, which splattered the mashed potatoes on the Monet; Zepeda’s group, Declare Emergency; and the Social Change Lab, which conducts research on activism.
—Michelle Weber, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2024
The traditional Lebanese houses with green shutters and red-tiled roofs were now splattered with mustard-yellow signage for OMT, one of the services the diaspora relies on to send money home from abroad.
—Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Splatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splatter. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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