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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

... tambourine, and a triangle, and certain elongated scraps of music, Mr. George directs his massive tread. And halting at a few paces from it, as he sees a soldierly looking woman, with her outer skirts tucked up, come forth with a small wooden tub, and in that tub commence a-whisking and a-splashing on the margin of the pavement, Mr. George says to himself, "She's as usual, washing greens. I never saw her, except upon a baggage-waggon, ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... beyond the point before her way died out, but was still less than a hundred yards from it. By the splashing of water the boys could tell that the convicts were launching one of the dugouts in pursuit. With vigorous strokes Charley sent their light craft flying ahead; a few minutes and they would be out of rifle-shot and out of danger, but again ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... fetching, decanting, and general derangement of the entire house; and at best the bath was not hot; it always lost its virtue on the stairs and landing. And to splash—one of the most voluptuous pleasures in life—was forbidden by the code. Mrs Nixon would actually weep at a splashing. Splashing was immoral. It was as wicked as amorous dalliance in a monastery. In the shop-house godliness was child's ...

— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett

... evening, to hear cheerful music, to sip pleasant drinks, to see the moon rise from behind Arthur's Seat and shine upon the spires and monuments and the green tree-tops in the valley. Alas! and the next morning the rain is splashing on the window, and the passengers flee along Princes ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... usually in care of some motherly dame who sat in the shade of a tree with her knitting. The little boys swam out to us, sometimes, but the little maids stood knee-deep in the water and stopped their splashing and frolicking to inspect the raft with their innocent eyes as it drifted by. Once we turned a corner suddenly and surprised a slender girl of twelve years or upward, just stepping into the water. She had not time to run, but she did what answered just as well; she promptly drew ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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