sprinkle

sprinkle
v
1. hail, splash, sparge, spit, spatter, dabble, dribble, trickle; barrage, volley, bombard.
2. disperse, spread, disburse, scatter, asperse, diverge; distribute, broadcast, spray, throw; disseminate, diffuse, strew, bestrew.
3. suffuse, overspread, dust, powder, Cookery. dredge; overlay, screen, coat, cover; stipple, dapple, speckle, mottle; dot, spot, fleck, speck, maculate, bespatter.
4. intersperse, insert among, diversify, variegate, vary.
5. shower, drizzle, mist, Chiefly Dial. mizzle, flurry, rain.
n
6. showering, drizzling, misting, Chiefly Dial. mizzling, sprinkling; dribbling, trickling, sparge, sparging, spit, spitting, spew, spewing; barrage, volley, bombardment.
7. dispersion, dispersing, spreading, disbursement, disbursing, scatter, scattering, aspersion, aspersing; distribution, distributing; broadcast, broadcasting, spraying, throwing, dissemination, disseminating, diffusion, diffusing; strewing, bestrewing.
8. diversification, diversifying, variegation, variegating, variation, varying, interspersion, interspersing, interjection, interjecting, insertion, inserting.
9. sprinkles jimmies, shots, sprinklies.
10. shower, drizzle, mist, Chiefly Dial. mizzle, Scot. dribble, rain, wet.
11. dash, pinch, smattering. See sprinkling.

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