splashing

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

splashing
    n 1: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
         [syn: {spatter}, {spattering}, {splash}, {splashing},
         {splattering}]
    2: the act of scattering water about haphazardly [syn: {splash},
       {splashing}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Splash \Splash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Splashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Splashing}.] [Akin to plash.]
   1. To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
      [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "splashing":
      affusion, aspergation, aspersion, babbling, baptism, bath, bathing,
      bedewing, bubbling, burbling, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing,
      drowning, flooding, guggling, gurgling, hosing, hosing down,
      humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, lapping, laving,
      moistening, plashing, rinsing, rippling, sloshing, sparging,
      spattering, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submersion,
      swashing, swishing, trilling, watering, wetting

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