Spat·ter v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.]
 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.
    Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people.   --Burke.
 2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
 3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.


 spattered
      adj 1: covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled
             with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens
             splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with
             grease" [syn: dabbled, splashed, splashy, splattered]
      2: spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in
         combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a
         grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach";
         "mud-splashed trouser legs" [syn: bespattered, besplashed,
          splashed]