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