[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to scatter or dash in small particles or drops:The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.", "to splash with something in small particles:to spatter the ground with water.", "to sprinkle or spot with something that soils or stains."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to send out small particles or drops, as falling water:rain spattering on a tin roof.", "to strike a surface in or as in a shower, as bullets."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act or the sound of spattering:the spatter of rain on a roof.", "a splash or spot of something spattered."]}]