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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of besplash.

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Examples

  • His doublet and hose besplashed with mud and torn by briers seemed not to give him any concern; neither did the condition of his shoes, which were foul with the slimy mud of the swamp.

    A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

  • Behold me now when the day is but half gone, slopped with water and besplashed with mud till no man may know the color of my garments.

    A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

  • I remember waking to find myself very miserable in a ghastly dawn, where guttering candles flickered in their sockets, casting an unearthly light upon bottles, silverware, and more bottles that stood or lay amidst overturned and broken glasses; an unseemly jumble that littered a long table whose rumpled cloth was plentifully besplashed with spilled wine and flanked by empty chairs.

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Once, a young officer on a besplashed charger nearly ran him down.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • Once, a young officer on a besplashed charger nearly ran him down.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • Once, a young officer on a besplashed charger nearly ran him down.

    The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895

  • Once, a young officer on a besplashed charger nearly ran him down.

    The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885

  • Once, a young officer on a besplashed charger nearly ran him down.

    The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885

  • He is free to laugh at a comrade for coming besplashed up to his eyes and wet to the skin, though at night he goes to his own home in just the same plight.

    Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880

  • The spectacle they presented was one of utter, abject misery, besplashed with mud, the horse trembling in every limb, the man upon his back a helpless mass, as if at his last gasp, the other, wild-eyed and pale as death, keeping his feet only by an effort of fraternal love.

    The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

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