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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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noun

One who, or that which, accelerates.

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splatter

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈsplætɚ/Used In Literature ↓

An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

In a Sentence

He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.

Origin

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for splatter

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

home I would stand before the bathroom mirror and break one of the boils.

Yellow pus would spurt and splatter on the mirror. And little white hard

pits. In a horrible way it was fascinating that all that stuff was in there. But

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