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splotch

splotch

 
pronunciation:
splach
parts of speech:
noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
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Word Combinations (noun, verb)
part of speech: noun
definition: an irregularly shaped blotch, spot, or stain.
The artist likes big splotches of color in her abstract paintings.
similar words:
stain
Word Combinations  About this feature
adjective + (n.)splotch attracting, bald, big, black, blue, bold, bright, brilliant, brown, colored, dark, dried, far, fresh, gray, green, huge, large, left, mottled, orange, pink, pure, purple, red, round, slimy, small, tanned, tiny, ugly, wet, white, yellow  [See all][See only the most frequent]
verb + (n.)splotch appear, bore, break, cover, hit, melt, notice, paint, pull, scrape, show, spread, stain, stand, star, stare, suggest, surround
noun + (n.)splotch Help blood, body, brown, ceiling, charcoal, cheek, chest, clothes, color, dark, effect, eye, face, forest, gold, hand, heat, horizon, light, line, map, middle, mother, neck, oil, paint, patch, pattern, pen, rain, red, road, room, rust, sauce, shade, side, skin, spot, stain, streak, stripe, tree, vision, wall, water, wrinkle  [See all][See only the most frequent]
 
part of speech: transitive verb
inflections: splotches, splotching, splotched
definition: to make a splotch or splotches on.
 
part of speech: intransitive verb
definition: to make splotches.
Word Combinations  About this feature
(v.)splotch + nounHelp bag, dirt, freckle, leaf, melting, mountain, shirt, sky, suit