1. The act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
   "The chef's vigorous stirring caused a splashing of sauce on the stovetop";
   - spatter, spattering, splash, splattering
    
2. The act of scattering water about haphazardly
   "The children's splashing in the pool created a joyful atmosphere";
   - splash

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

Derived forms: splashings

Type of: act, begrime, bemire [archaic], colly [archaic], cover, dirty, disperse, dot, dust, footslog, go, grime, move, overlay, pad, painting, plod, scatter, slog, soil, sound, sprinkle, tramp, trog [Brit, informal], tromp [N. Amer, informal], trudge, wetting

Encyclopedia: Splash, Too