splashing

3 definitions found

splashing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Splash \Splash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Splashed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Splashing.] [Akin to plash.]
     1. To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
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     2. To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
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splashing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  splashing
      n 1: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
           [syn: spatter, spattering, splash, splashing,
           splattering]
      2: the act of scattering water about haphazardly [syn: splash,
         splashing]

splashing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "splashing":
     affusion, aspergation, aspersion, babbling, baptism, bath, bathing,
     bedewing, bubbling, burbling, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing,
     drowning, flooding, guggling, gurgling, hosing, hosing down,
     humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, lapping, laving,
     moistening, plashing, rinsing, rippling, sloshing, sparging,
     spattering, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submersion,
     swashing, swishing, trilling, watering, wetting