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sprinkle in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. scatter with liquid; wet lightly
    "Sprinkle the lawn"
    sprinkle  sparge  besprinkle 
  2. distribute loosely
    "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
    scatter  sprinkle  dot  dust  disperse 
  3. rain gently
    "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"
    sprinkle  spit  spatter  patter  pitter-patter 
  4. cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
    "She splashed the water around her"
    sprinkle  splash  splosh 
noun
  1. a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
    scattering  sprinkle  sprinkling 
  2. the act of sprinkling or splashing water
    "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the malt"
    sprinkle  sprinkling  sparge 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University



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