Spattered vs Scattered - What's the difference?
spattered | scattered |
(spatter)
To splash with small droplets.
To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
(figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.
(scatter)
Randomly distributed.
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, title= (meteorology, of clouds) covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
(meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.
As verbs the difference between spattered and scattered
is that spattered is past tense of spatter while scattered is past tense of scatter.As an adjective scattered is
randomly distributed.spattered
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*spatter
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(en verb)- When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
- to spatter blood
- (Alexander Pope)
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* *scattered
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(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}