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• v  dash a liquid upon or against
• v  rain gently
• v  spot, splash, or soil
  The baby spattered the bib with food
• s  covered with bright patches (often used in combination)
  a blood-spattered room

• Drobny's overhead shots spattered all over Rosewall's end of the court.
• He's made social commentary, deadpan domestic interiors and still-life paradoxes like Staining bench, furniture manufacturer's, Vancouver, a dazzling shot of a densely spattered .
• A fourth victim, Corbett's stepdaughter, was dead in the blood-spattered kitchen, shot in the chest with a .

• spatter
• splatter
• plash
• splash
• splosh
• swash
• sprinkle
• spit
• patter
• pitter-patter
• bespatter
• dabbled
• splashed
• splattered

News & Articles

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• 'V/H/S/2' review: Blood-spattered and chilling collection of horror shorts by creators of 'The Blair Witch Project'
  V/H/S/2is a properly blood-spattered and chilling collection of shorts -- four films from the folks who made "The Blair Witch Project," "Hobo With a Shotgun," "The Raid" and "You're Next."
  June 14, 2013 - Zap2It
• 'He came to get a better life': Cabby stabbed to death with umbrella a dedicated family man from Nigeria
  Demetrius E. Loadholt Cops investigate the blood-spattered cab where a hard-working livery cab driver was stabbed to death with an umbrella in Brooklyn. The livery driver gruesomely murdered with an umbrella was a hardworking father-of-five who emigrated from Nigeria for his kids. “He came to get a better life. He...
  June 14, 2013 - New York Post
• Midstate emergency agencies stage mock bomb training
  Spattered with blood, the three Wilkinson County High School students sat calmly on the floor at Middle Georgia Regional Airport on Thursday morning, playing with their smartphones.
  June 13, 2013 - Macon Telegraph

Quotes

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• John Roberts in About - News & Issues (blog)
  Witnesses do not testify in our courtroom, and it is not our role to make credibility findings and construct theories of the possible ways in which Mrs. Muncey's blood could have been spattered and wiped on House's jeans,Roberts wrote.
• Caral Ni Chuilin in Belfast Newsletter
  Ms Ní Chuilín said: "Given the work that was done, to have paint spattered over the front of the building for purely sectarian reasons is completely unacceptable and those behind the attack have no right to do this."
• Jacques Rogge in AFP
  I was a ringside doctor for five years,said Rogge, who was delighted that women's boxing was accepted into the 2012 Games on Thursday. "I was young. My shirt would often be spattered with blood as I was closest to the bout. I would come...