Synonyms of the word

sprinkle

• v. (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for…
• v. (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
• v. (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
• v. (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse;…
• n. A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
• n. A light rain shower.

besprinkle

• v. (archaic) to sprinkle with.

discharge

• v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
• v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• v. To expel or let go.
• v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
• v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
• v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
• v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
• v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
• v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
• n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
• n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
• n. the act of expelling or letting go.
• n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
• n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
• n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
• n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

disperse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
• v. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
• adj. Scattered or spread out.

dot

• n. A small spot.
• n. (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word;…
• n. A diacritical mark comprised of a small opaque circle above or below any of various letters of the Latin…
• n. (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part,…
• n. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
• n. (obsolete) A lump or clot.
• n. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
• n. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
• v. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
• v. (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
• v. To mark by means of dots or small spots.
• v. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
• prep. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
• n. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.

dust

• n. (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically…
• n. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
• n. (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
• n. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
• n. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
• n. (figuratively) Something worthless.
• n. (figuratively) A low or mean condition.
• n. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
• n. (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
• v. (transitive) To remove dust from.
• v. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
• v. (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
• v. (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
• v. (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
• v. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

patter

• n. The soft sound of feet walking on a hard surface.
• v. To make irregularly repeated sounds of low-to-moderate magnitude and lower-than-average pitch.
• v. To spatter; to sprinkle.
• n. Glib and rapid speech, such as from an auctioneer, or banter during a sports event.
• v. To speak in such a way – glibly and rapidly, such as from an auctioneer, or when bantering during a sports…
• n. One who pats.

pitter-patter

• n. A soft, percussive sound, as of tiny feet or rain on a rooftop.

rain

• n. Condensed water falling from a cloud.
• n. (figuratively) Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise…
• n. (figuratively) An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
• v. (impersonal) To have rain fall from the sky.
• v. To fall as or like rain.
• v. (intransitive) To fall like rain.
• v. (transitive) To issue (something) in large quantities.

scatter

• v. (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
• v. (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
• v. (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
• v. (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
• v. (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
• v. (transitive) To be dispersed upon.

scattering

• v. present participle of scatter.
• n. A small quantity of something occurring at irregular intervals and dispersed at random points.
• n. (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.

shower

• n. A brief fall of precipitation.
• n. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by…
• n. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
• n. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
• n. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
• n. (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
• n. (chiefly Ireland, Britain, Australia, pejorative) A shower of shit.
• n. (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, pejorative, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer…
• v. (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
• v. To bathe using a shower.
• v. to bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
• n. One who shows.
• n. (slang) A man whose penis appears roughly full size both when flaccid and when erect.

sparge

• v. To sprinkle or spray.
• v. To introduce bubbles into (a liquid).
• n. (brewing) Synonym of lautering.

spatter

• v. (transitive) To splash with small droplets.
• v. (transitive) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

spit

• n. A rod on which meat is grilled (UK English) or broiled (US English).
• n. A narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
• n. The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
• v. To impale on a spit.
• v. To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
• v. To spade; to dig.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth.
• v. To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
• v. (transitive) To utter violently.
• v. (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, utter.
• n. (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
• n. (countable) An instance of spitting.

splash

• n. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
• n. A small amount of liquid.
• n. A small amount (of color).
• n. A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
• n. An impact or impression.
• n. (computing, informal) splash screen.
• n. (wrestling) A body press; A move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top…
• v. To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
• v. To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
• v. (transitive) to hit or expel liquid at.
• v. To create an impact or impression; to print, post or publicize prominently.
• v. (transitive) To spend (money).
• v. To launch a ship.

splosh

• v. to make the sound of splashing.
• v. to traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.
• v. to spill or spill over.
• n. (countable) A heavy splashing sound.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Tea (the drink).

sprinkle

• v. (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for…
• v. (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
• v. (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
• v. (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse;…
• n. A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
• n. A light rain shower.

sprinkling

• v. present participle of sprinkle.
• n. The action of the verb to sprinkle.
• n. A small amount of (some liquid, powder or other fine substance) that is sprinkled on to something.
• n. A light shower of rain.

watering

• n. An act of watering.
• v. present participle of water.

wet

• adj. Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
• adj. Of weather or a time period, rainy.
• adj. Made up of liquid or moisture.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
• adj. (slang, of a woman) sexually aroused.
• adj. (slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
• adj. (of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.
• adj. (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
• adj. Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
• adj. (fountain pens and calligraphy) Depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
• adj. (slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
• adj. (of a burrito, sandwich, etc.) Covered in a sauce.
• n. Liquid or moisture.
• n. Rainy weather.
• n. (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized).
• n. (Britain, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.
• n. (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
• n. (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
• v. (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
• v. (transitive) To accidentally urinate in or on.
• v. (intransitive) To make or become wet.
• v. (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
• v. Misspelling of whet.