0 present participle of spatter --
1 to drop small drops of liquid, etc. on a surface, or (of liquid) to fall, especially noisily, in small drops: --
Java now occupies a former storage garage, with bright student-created murals spattering the walls.
The cook had just baked a batch, the explosion spattering most of it on the deck.
It may be the result of cryo-vulcanism, a spattering of material from outer moons, or residue left by the sublimation of brighter ice.
In emulsions and fat spreads, it stabilizes emulsions, reduces spattering during frying, improves texture of spreads and flavour release.
Solder paste can also have a spattering effect.
Many other decorative painting techniques were used such as glazing, spattering, marbelizing, manipulating the paint with the fingers or other objects, etc.
The blood seemed more like paint spattered from an artist's brush.