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Splash   /splæʃ/   Listen
noun
Splash  n.  
1.
Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.
2.
A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.


verb
Splash  v. t.  (past & past part. splashed; pres. part. splashing)  
1.
To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
2.
To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.


Splash  v. i.  To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.





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"Splash" Quotes from Famous Books



... the frog had preserved his polite attentiveness in a manner highly creditable to his upbringing, but this proved too much; his over-charged feelings burst from him in a hoarse croak, and he disappeared into the river with a splash. ...
— My Lady Caprice • Jeffrey Farnol
... Amory floated lazily in the water he shut his mind to all thoughts except those of hazy soap-bubble lands where the sun splattered through wind-drunk trees. How could any one possibly think or worry, or do anything except splash and dive and loll there on the edge of time while the flower months failed. Let the days move over—sadness and memory and pain recurred outside, and here, once more, before he went on to meet them he wanted ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... contradiction in mere arithmetic, and swung out of the swinging doors, leaving his coffee untasted. An omnibus going to the Bank went rattling by with an unusual rapidity. He had a violent run of a hundred yards to reach it; but he managed to spring, swaying upon the splash-board and, pausing for an instant to pant, he climbed on to the top. When he had been seated for about half a minute, he heard behind him a sort ...
— The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare • G. K. Chesterton
... to follow. Here and there it passes through cornfields, and it is by leaving the road to take a footpath through a cornfield that the best view is to be had of Puttenham, whose red roofs and grey church tower are set delightfully among rich elms, with a splash of ploughed chalk blazing white through the trees beyond. Puttenham has added only a few new cottages to its outskirts; under the church it is still red and mossy and lichened. The cottages are oddly built to suit the sloping ground, for the road to the church rises ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker
... hot impact pit in the open field, where the frozen soil had seemed to splash like a liquid. Crumpled in the hole was a lump of half-fused sheet steel, wadded up like paper. It was probably part of the Far Side's central hub. Magnesium and aluminum, of which the major portions had certainly been made, were ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun


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