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1.
If you splash about or splash around in water, you hit or disturb the water in a noisy way, causing some of it to fly up into the air.
A lot of people were in the water, swimming or simply splashing about...
She could hear the voices of her friends as they splashed in a nearby rock pool...
The gliders and their pilots splashed into the lake and had to be fished out.
VERB: V about/around, V, V into n
2.
If you splash a liquid somewhere or if it splashes, it hits someone or something and scatters in a lot of small drops.
He closed his eyes tight, and splashed the water on his face...
A little wave, the first of many, splashed in my face...
Beer splashed the carpet...
Lorries rumbled past them, splashing them with filthy water from the potholes in the road...
VERB: V n prep, V prep/adv, V n, V n with n
3.
A splash is the sound made when something hits water or falls into it.
There was a splash and something fell clumsily into the water.
N-SING
4.
A splash of a liquid is a small quantity of it that falls on something or is added to something.
Wallcoverings and floors should be able to withstand steam and splashes...
N-COUNT
5.
A splash of colour is an area of a bright colour which contrasts strongly with the colours around it.
Anne has left the walls white, but added splashes of colour with the tablecloth and the paintings.
N-COUNT: with supp, oft N of n
6.
If a magazine or newspaper splashes a story, it prints it in such a way that it is very noticeable.
The newspapers splashed the story all over their front pages...
VERB: V n
7.
If you make a splash, you become noticed or become popular because of something that you have done.
Now she's made a splash in the American television show 'Civil Wars'.
PHRASE: V inflects