splash

1. verb

1)

splash your face with cool water

Syn:

sprinkle, spray, shower, splatter, slosh, slop, squirt; daub; wet

2)

his boots were splashed with mud

Syn:

spatter, bespatter, splatter, speck, speckle, blotch, smear, stain, mark; informal splotch

3)

waves splashed against the pier

Syn:

swash, wash, break, lap; dash, beat, lash, batter, crash, buffet; literary plash

4)

children splashed in the water

Syn:

paddle, wade, slosh; wallow; informal splosh; rare plash

5)

the story was splashed across the front pages

Syn:

blazon, display, spread, plaster, trumpet, publicize; informal splatter

2. noun

1)

a splash of grease on his shirt

Syn:

spot, blob, dab, daub, smudge, smear, speck, fleck; mark, stain; informal splotch

2)

a splash of soda water

Syn:

drop, dash, bit, spot, soupçon, dribble, driblet

3)

a splash of color

Syn:

patch, burst, streak

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- make a splash