Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bespatter
Participle: bespattered
Gerund: bespattering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bespatter |
| you | bespatter |
| he;she;it | bespatters |
| we | bespatter |
| you | bespatter |
| they | bespatter |
Perfect
| I | have bespattered |
| you | have bespattered |
| he;she;it | has bespattered |
| we | have bespattered |
| you | have bespattered |
| they | have bespattered |
Past
| I | bespattered |
| you | bespattered |
| he;she;it | bespattered |
| we | bespattered |
| you | bespattered |
| they | bespattered |
Pluperfect
| I | had bespattered |
| you | had bespattered |
| he;she;it | had bespattered |
| we | had bespattered |
| you | had bespattered |
| they | had bespattered |
Future
| I | will bespatter |
| you | will bespatter |
| he;she;it | will bespatter |
| we | will bespatter |
| you | will bespatter |
| they | will bespatter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bespattered |
| you | will have bespattered |
| he;she;it | will have bespattered |
| we | will have bespattered |
| you | will have bespattered |
| they | will have bespattered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bespatter |
| you | bespatter |
| he;she;it | bespatter |
| we | bespatter |
| you | bespatter |
| they | bespatter |
Perfect
| I | have bespattered |
| you | have bespattered |
| he;she;it | have bespattered |
| we | have bespattered |
| you | have bespattered |
| they | have bespattered |
Imperfect
| I | bespattered |
| you | bespattered |
| he;she;it | bespattered |
| we | bespattered |
| you | bespattered |
| they | bespattered |
Pluperfect
| I | had bespattered |
| you | had bespattered |
| he;she;it | had bespattered |
| we | had bespattered |
| you | had bespattered |
| they | had bespattered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bespatter |
| you | would bespatter |
| he;she;it | would bespatter |
| we | would bespatter |
| you | would bespatter |
| they | would bespatter |
Perfect
| I | would have bespattered |
| you | would have bespattered |
| he;she;it | would have bespattered |
| we | would have bespattered |
| you | would have bespattered |
| they | would have bespattered |
Imperative
| you | bespatter |
| we | Let's bespatter |
| you | bespatter |
Verbs conjugated like 'bespatter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bespatter'
bescatter,
beflatter,
beslather,
bespattle,
rescatter,
spatter,
batter,
befeather,
befetter,
beflutter,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
6. Proto-Germanic *bider.
7. Proto-Germanic *bi-
8. Proto-West Germanic *bi-
9. Old English be-
10. Middle English bi-
11. English be-
12. English spatter
13. English bespatter
14. From be- + spatter.
Sample Sentences
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The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making. [1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 15:]
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[D]azed and blinded, she bent her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked. [1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, →OCLC, part I (The Window), page 54:]
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Beſides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now appointed to be his Judge, calling you an ungodly Villain, with many other ſuch like vilifying terms, with which he hath beſpattered most of the Gentry of our Town. [1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 163:]