The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SPATTER
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What does SPATTER mean?
SPATTER noun- A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
- A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
- The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
- To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
- To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
- To injure by aspersion; to defame.