1. To propel or scatter (a fluid) about in flying masses.

2. To scatter fluid onto (a surface) in flying masses; wet, stain, or soil with flying fluid.

3. To cause (something) to scatter fluid in flying masses: splashed their hands in the water.

4. To make (one's way) with or by the scattering of fluid.

5. To apply patches or spots of a contrasting, usually bright, color to: a floral pattern that was splashed with pink; moonlight splashing the deserted courtyard.

6. To display or publicize very noticeably: Their engagement was splashed all over the tabloids.

a. To cause a fluid to scatter in flying masses: splashed about in the swimming pool.

b. To fall into or move through fluid with this effect: We splashed through the waves.

a. To move, spill, or fly about in scattered masses: Whipped cream splashed onto the counter.

b. To produce a sound or sight associated with this effect.

1. The act or sound of splashing: went for a splash in the lake; heard the splash of the fish being thrown back.

a. A flying mass of fluid.

b. A small amount, especially of a fluid: a splash of liqueur on the cake.

3. A marking produced by or as if by scattered fluid: a splash of light.

4. A great though often short-lived impression; a stir: a publicity splash.

To land in water. Used of a spacecraft or missile.

References in classic literature ?

For a minute Jo stood still with a strange feeling in her heart, then she resolved to go on, but something held and turned her round, just in time to see Amy throw up her hands and go down, with a sudden crash of rotten ice, the splash of water, and a cry that made Jo's heart stand still with fear.

Outside the soft, monotonous splash of a fountain could be heard; the sound penetrated into the room with the heavy odor of jessamine that came through the open windows.

For the sake of the minister's health, and to enable the leech to gather plants with healing balm in them, they took long walks on the sea-shore, or in the forest; mingling various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind-anthem among the tree-tops.

There was a long line of hogs, with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away together; until at last each started again, and vanished with a splash into a huge vat of boiling water.

In the wide splash of light that it flung upon the floor sat the Simpsons, in reverent and solemn silence, Emma Jane standing behind them, hand in hand with Rebecca.

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of a pitcher which I flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr.

She stared out of the window with her lips pinched together, and it seemed quite natural that the rain should have begun to pour down in gray slanting lines and splash and stream down the window-panes.

Still in the same moment, I saw the face tilt backward with a white terror on it that I shall never forget, and heard a great cry on board the steamer and a loud splash in the water, and felt the boat sink from under me.

And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.

Inside the house there was a great crash and splash. and the noise of a pail rolling over and over.

Hark ye, my son,"--standing on tiptoe to splash the water on the giant--"take your new name on entering the forest.

Here and there a splash of white or crimson marked the blooming of some trailing epiphyte.