Covered with drops or spots of liquid, mud, or other material scattered in an irregular pattern; also used as a verb meaning to scatter or spray in this way.
From Middle Dutch 'splatten' or 'spalten' (to split), influenced by 'spatter'; originally described the sound and action of liquid hitting a surface and breaking apart.
The word 'splattered' carries vivid sensory information—physicists have discovered that splatter patterns follow mathematical rules, which led to 'splatter forensics' helping solve crimes by analyzing blood spatter at crime scenes.
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