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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A light splash.
  2. n. The sound of a light splash.
  3. v. To spatter (liquid) about; splash.
  4. v. To cause a light splash.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To dabble in water; also, to fall with a dabbling sound; splash.
  2. To splash water or mud.
  3. To make a splashing noise in.
  4. To sprinkle with coloring matter so as to produce an imitation of granite: as, to plash a wall.
  5. n. A small collection of standing water; a puddle; a pool.
  6. n. A sudden downpour of water; a sudden dash or splash: as, a plash of rain.
  7. n. A flash; a spot (of light).
  8. n. A splash or splashing sound.
  9. To bend down and interweave the branches or twigs of: as, to plash a hedge.
  10. To bend down a branch.
  11. n. A branch of a tree partly cut or lopped, and then bent down and bound to other branches.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK, dialectal A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
  2. n. A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
  3. n. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
  4. v. intransitive To splash.
  5. v. transitive To cause a splash.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
  2. n. A dash of water; a splash.
  3. v. To dabble in water; to splash.
  4. v. To splash, as water.
  5. v. To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter.
  6. v. To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
  7. n. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. dash a liquid upon or against
  2. n. the sound like water splashing
  3. v. interlace the shoots of

Etymologies

  1. Possibly from Middle English plashe ("puddle"), from Old English plæsc. Compare the German platschen. (Wiktionary)
  2. Possibly from Middle English plashe, pool of water, from Old English plæsc. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “I'm not interested, as a poet, in words like 'plash' - Seamus Heaney words, interesting words.”

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  • “The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene.”

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  • “Ben had heard that significant cry of alarm, and almost simultaneously the "plash" made by the little Portuguese as her body dropped down upon the water.”

    The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea

  • “The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime.”

    The Mural II

  • “And, for Jerry, most delightful of all, there was the gurgle and plash of a brooklet that pursued its invisible way over mossy stones under a garmenture of tender and delicate ferns.”

    CHAPTER XIII

  • “She collected water in a red plastic cup, then tilted the cup over her belly, letting the thin stream plash onto her skin where it split apart into rivulets that ran down the sides of her pregnant dome.”

    Simon & Schuster: ALONE With You

  • “The air smelled strong and alive, and she could hear the purl and plash of fountains, the ting of rain-chimes, and the deep peal of rain-drums.”

    Fictionaut: Tran Siberian

  • “It felt so much higher there, so much farther from the sparkle and plash of the waves.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Italian Summer

  • “After that, we were wiped—plus it had gotten pretty hot—so after swinging back through the merchants so I could pick up a couple of holiday presents, we headed back to the hotel, changed into our suits, and hit the outdoor pool, which had a fun slide and a waterfall to plash under.”

    Adventures in Spokane

  • “Favorite panel, the second page plash that shows a seated Revolutionary as he looks over his carnage.”

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. puddle
  1. splash
  1. interlace
  1. rain

hypernyms (6)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. lace
  1. twine
  1. intertwine
  1. enlace
  1. interlace
  1. entwine

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. plashing
  2. gurgle
  3. tinkle
  4. trickle
  5. splash
  1. pattering
  2. whoosh
  3. drizzle
  4. patter
  5. drip
  1. chirruping
  2. chiming
  3. soughing
  4. scuffling
  5. swish
  1. susurration
  2. vicissitude
  3. swash
  4. murmur
  5. droning
  1. whir
  2. slap
  3. tolling
  4. plop
  5. burp

reverse dictionary (9)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. puddle
  1. plash
  1. plesh
  1. plashing
  1. podge
  1. plap
  1. pleach
  1. splash
  1. blash

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