Scatters vs Spatters - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between scatters and spatters

is that scatters is (scatter) while spatters is (spatter).

(head)

(scatter)

(en verb)

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

the police scattered the crowds

the crowd scattered

* Shakespeare

Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.

To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.

* Dryden

Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?

(physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).

To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.

To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.

to scatter hopes or plans

* scatterbrain * scatterplot * scattershot

(head)

(spatter)

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(en verb)

To splash with small droplets.

When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.

To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.

to spatter blood

(Alexander Pope)

(figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

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