Besprinkle

Definition: Besprinkle

Besprinkle

Verb

1. Scatter with liquid; wet lightly; "Sprinkle the lawn".

Date "besprinkle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Note: Besprinkle \Be*sprin"kle\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Besprinkled; present participle verb or noun Besprinkling.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Besprinkle

Synonym: sprinkle (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Mixture	Instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Besprinkle

English words defined with "besprinkle": Arrose ♦ Beflower, Besprinkled, Besprinkling. (references)

Specialty definitions using "besprinkle": Yggdrasil'. (references)

Etymologies containing "besprinkle": Besprent ♦ Catapasm. (references)

Expression using "besprinkle": besprinkle with. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "besprinkle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		spërkat (asperse, bedew, damp, dampen, dash, dew, perfuse, plash, slosh, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew). (various references)

Arabic		‏نثر (disperse, disseminate, distribute, drill, intersperse, outwit, prose, scatter, sow, sowing, sown, sprinkle, strew, strewing, yank), ‏رش (asperse, dabble, dust, powder, spatter, spirt, splash, splatter, spray, spraying, sprinkle, squirt). (various references)

Bulgarian		напръсквам (slosh, splash, sprinkle, syringe). (various references)

Czech		pokropit (sparge, spatter, spray, sprinkle, water). (various references)

French		parsemer de, asperger de, arroser de. (various references)

German		bestäuben (dust, pollinate, powder, spray, sprinkle, to pollinate), bespritzen (bespatter, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, squirt, to splash), besprengen (sprinkle, water). (various references)

Hungarian		meglocsol (to dabble, to perfuse, to souse, to water). (various references)

Italian		cospargere (constellate, dash, dust, intersperse, overspread, scatter, strew, suffuse, to strew over). (various references)

Manx		craa ushtey. (various references)

Pig Latin		esprinklebay

Portuguese		borrifar (asperse, bedew, dabble, dash, dew, drop, perfuse, plash, spray, sprinkle), aspergir (asperse, perfuse, spray, sprinkle). (various references)

Romanian		stropi cu (besprinkle with). (various references)

Russian		кропить. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		posuti (drench, sprinkle, strew), poprskati (bespatter, intersperse, slosh, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle), poškropiti. (various references)

Spanish		salpicar (bespatter, dabble, fleck, lard, pepper, plash, salt, scatter, spatter, speckle, splash, splatter, sprinkle, tag). (various references)

Swedish		bestänka (dash, splash). (various references)

Turkish		serpmek (asperse, dabble, dust, intersperse, perfuse, pulverization, scatter, spill, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), saçmak (bestrew, broadcast, disseminate, distribute, eradiate, irradiate, lash out on, radiate, scatter, sow, spill, spit, splutter, sprinkle, strew, throw out). (various references)

Ukranian		кропити (asperse, sprinkle, wash), оббризкувати (asperse, bedew, sparge, spatter, splash). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tango. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "besprinkle": besprinkled, besprinkles. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "besprinkle" (pronounced 'Be*sprin"kle'): Ankle, Bespeckle, Brickle, Darkle, Dekle, Disparkle, Entackle, fickle, Frickle, grackle, Grakle, Hockle, Huckle, Ickle, Kinkle, mickle, nickle, Outsparkle, Overmickle, Quackle, sickle, Steinkle, strickle, Strockle, Stuckle, Trinkle, Turkle, twinkle, unbuckle, Unkle, Unshackle, Untackle, Unwrinkle, Wankle, Winkle. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-k-l-n-p-r-s"
	-2 letters: berlines, blinkers, pilsener, plinkers, sprinkle.
	-3 letters: beliers, berline, berlins, bilkers, blinker, erepsin, kelpies, kernels, liernes, linkers, pensile, peskier, pilsner, pinkers, plinker, relines, relinks, repines, replies, spieler.
	-4 letters: belier, belies, belike, berlin, bikers, bilker, birles, bleeps, blinks, breeks, brines, brinks, enisle, ensile, inkers, inkles, keleps, kelpie, kernel, kernes, kneels, kreeps, lebens, lepers, libers, lierne.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-k-l-n-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: besprinkled, besprinkles.
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