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splash definition

splash (splas̸h)

transitive verb

  1. to cause (a liquid substance) to scatter and fall in drops or blobs
  2. to dash or scatter a liquid substance, mud, etc. on, so as to wet or soil
  3. to cause to splash a liquid to splash one's feet in puddles
  4. to make (one's way) by splashing
  5. to mark or spot by or as by splashing a glade splashed with sunlight
  6. to display conspicuously scandal splashed all over the front page

Etymology: intens. extension of plash

intransitive verb

  1. to dash or scatter a liquid substance about
  2. to fall, strike, or scatter with a splash or splashes rain splashing against the window
  3. to move with splashes

noun

  1. the act or sound of splashing
  2. a mass of splashed water, mud, etc.
  3. a spot or mark made by or as by splashing
  4. a patch of color, light, etc.
  5. a small amount (of soda water, etc.)
  6. Informal a conspicuous or ostentatious display

Related Forms:

splash Idioms

make a splash

Informal to attract great, often brief attention by doing something striking or ostentatious

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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