spray
/spɹeɪ/ verb B2- To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something. · The firemen sprayed the house.· Using a water cannon, the national guard sprayed the protesters.
- To project in a dispersive manner. · Spray some ointment on that scratch.· The water sprayed out of the hose.
- To project many small items dispersively.
- To urinate in order to mark territory.
- To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit. · to spray the heap of a target process
- To pass (a ball), usually laterally across the field and often a long distance.
- To kick (a ball) poorly and in an unintended direction.
- To give unwanted advice.
He/she/it sprays · Past sprayed · Past participle sprayed · -ing form spraying
Verb forms
- Base form
- spray
- He/she/it
- sprays
- Past
- sprayed
- Past participle
- sprayed
- -ing form
- spraying
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Far away, from among the Kentish woods there rose a thin spray of smoke.
There was a tiny fountain in the middle of the room, that shot a spray of green perfume into the air, to fall back into a beautifully carved green marble basin.
There’s a piece of a plate with a spray of red and yellow ivy on it that is especially beautiful.
Edmond felt the trembling of the rock beneath which he lay; the waves, dashing themselves against it, wetted him with their spray.
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