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1. Cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
   "She splashed the water around her";
   - sprinkle, splosh [informal]
    
2. Walk through mud or mire
   "We had to splash across the wet meadow";
   - squelch, squish, splosh [informal], slosh, slop
    
3. Dash a liquid upon or against
   "The mother splashed the baby's face with water";
   - spatter, splatter, plash [rare], splosh [informal], swash
    
4. Mark or overlay with patches of contrasting colour or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered
   "The mountain was splashed with snow"
    
5. Make a splashing sound
   "water was splashing on the floor";
   - splosh [informal], slosh, slush
    
6. Soil or stain with a splashed liquid
    
7. Strike and dash about in a liquid
   "The boys splashed around in the pool"

1. The sound like water splashing
   - plash [rare]
    
2. A prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
   "he made a great splash and then disappeared";
   - stir
    
3. A small quantity of something moist or liquid
   "just a splash of whiskey";
   - dab, splatter
    
4. A patch of bright colour
   "her red hat gave her outfit a splash of colour"
    
5. The act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
   - spatter, spattering, splashing, splattering
    
6. The act of scattering water about haphazardly
   - splashing

Derived forms: splashing, splashed, splashes

Type of: begrime, bemire [archaic], carry-on [Brit, informal], colly [archaic], commotion, cover, dapple, dirty, disperse, disruption, disturbance, dot, dust, fleck, flutter, footslog, go, grime, hoo-ha [informal], hoo-hah [informal], hurly burly, kerfuffle [Brit, informal], maculation, noise, overlay, pad, painting, patch, plod, scatter, slog, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity, soil, song and dance [Brit, informal], sound, speckle, spot, sprinkle, to-do [informal], tramp, tromp [N. Amer, informal], trudge, wetting

Encyclopedia: Splash