bespatter

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to spot, splash, or soil

   Jumping in puddles caused mud to bespatter my boots.

2. 2
   verb

   To soil by spattering.

   The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.

3. 3
   verb

   To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend.

   Beſides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now appointed to be his Judge, calling you an ungodly Villain, with many other ſuch like vilifying terms, with which he hath beſpattered most of the Gentry of our Town.

From be- + spatter.

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