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Splashing

noun

1.

The act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface. Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splattering.

2.

The act of scattering water about haphazardly. Synonym: splash.

Splash

verb

(past & past part. splashed; pres. part. splashing)

1.

Cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force. Synonyms: splosh, sprinkle.

2.

Walk through mud or mire. Synonyms: slop, slosh, splosh, squelch, squish.

3.

Dash a liquid upon or against. Synonyms: plash, spatter, splatter, splosh, swash.

4.

Mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered.

5.

Make a splashing sound. Synonyms: slosh, slush, splosh.

6.

Soil or stain with a splashed liquid.

7.

Strike and dash about in a liquid.

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"Splashing" Quotes from Famous Books

... into which, only that morning, he had thrust his hot little face for a drink, now seemed bewitched. It was no longer a flow of sparkling water, but of splashing rainbows. From palest green to ruby red, from amethyst to amber it ...

— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston

... subdivided according to the width and number of their stripes. Once he ventured to creep to a place from which he could watch the sea. He saw that the tide was flowing. Below him on the strand were a number of seagulls, strutting, fluttering, shrieking, splashing with wing-tips and feet in the oncoming waves. He supposed that the young fry of some fish must have drifted shorewards, and that the birds were feasting on them. Then', at the far end of the bay, he saw men's figures moving, near the ...

— The Northern Iron - 1907 • George A. Birmingham

... path through the wood and went straight on, not listening to the lad's chatter nor making any myself. The shade was welcome enough; there were pretty places for those that had eyes to see them—waterfalls splashing down from the moss-grown rocks above; little pools, dark and wonderfully blue; here and there a bit of green, which might have been the lawn of a country house. But of dwelling or of people I saw nothing, and to what the boy fancied that he saw ...

— The House Under the Sea - A Romance • Sir Max Pemberton

... the forced march he made to the Stony village. The light was faint, and the low ground streaked with haze, as they floundered through the muskeg, sinking deep in the softer spots and splashing through shallow pools. When they reached the first hill bench he was hot and breathless, and their path led sharply upward over banks of ragged stones which had a trick of slipping down when they trod on them. It was worse where the stones were large and they stumbled into the hollows between. ...

— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss

... a half hour after we had taken our stand that the rumbling of a coach came to our ears. The horses were splashing through the mud, plainly making no great speed. Long before we saw the chaise, the cries of the postilions urging on the horses were to be heard. After an interminable period the carriage swung round the turn of the road and began to take the rise. We caught ...

— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine

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