Spattered vs Bespattered - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between spattered and bespattered

is that spattered is past tense of spatter while bespattered is past tense of bespatter.

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(spatter)

(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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(bespatter)

(en verb)

To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance.

To soil by spattering.

(figuratively) To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend.