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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
bespatter
 
SYLLABICATION:be·spat·ter
PRONUNCIATION:  b-sptr
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: be·spat·tered, be·spat·ter·ing, be·spat·ters
To spatter with or as if with mud: “a thoughtful, anti-activist judge being bespattered with charges of racism, sexism, hypocrisy and dishonesty” (William Safire).
 
 
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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  bespake bespeak  
 
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