1. Covered with bright patches (often used in combination)
   "a blood-spattered room";
   - dabbled, splashed, splattered

1. Spot, splash, or soil
   "The baby spattered the bib with food";
   - bespatter
    
2. Dash a liquid upon or against
   "The waves spattered against the rocks";
   - splatter, plash [rare], splash, splosh [informal], swash
    
3. Rain gently
   "It has only spattered, but the roads are slick";
   - sprinkle, spit [Brit], patter, pitter-patter

See also: covered

Type of: blob, blot, disperse, dot, dust, fleck, rain, rain down, scatter, spot, sprinkle

Encyclopedia: Spatter