Definitions for spray

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spray spray

Spelling: [sprey]

IPA: /spreɪ/

Spray is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in spray (aprsy).

Definitions for spray

noun

1. water or other liquid broken up into minute droplets and blown, ejected into, or falling through the air.
2. a jet of fine particles of liquid, as medicine, insecticide, paint, perfume, etc., discharged from an atomizer or other device for direct application to a surface.
3. a liquid to be discharged or applied in such a jet.
4. an apparatus or device for discharging such a liquid.
5. a quantity of small objects, flying or discharged through the air:
6. a single, slender shoot, twig, or branch with its leaves, flowers, or berries.
7. a group or bunch of cut flowers, leafy twigs, etc., arranged decoratively and for display, as in a vase.
8. an ornament having a similar form.

verb (used with object)

1. to scatter in the form of fine particles.
2. to apply as a spray:
3. to sprinkle or treat with a spray:
4. to direct a spray of particles, missiles, etc., upon:

verb (used without object)

1. to scatter spray; discharge a spray:
2. to issue as spray:

Origin of spray

1615-25; Dutch spraeyen; cognate with Middle High German spræjen

Examples for spray

Blinded as he was by the rain and spray, he could distinguish nothing.

I sent a shower of spray from the fixative over the canvas, and said: “Well, go on.”

From the wave of sound words spattered out and up like spray.

Aunt Rosine had put a spray of lilac in her bonnet, "to enliven her mourning," as she said.

"Thank you very much," said Dan, shaking the spray from his coat.

Neither Mr. Gelb nor the unions claimed responsibility for the spray painted vulgarities, and the case remains unsolved.

I gave her a spray of lilac, I remember, and you gave her a franc.

Gordon picked up a pair secondhand and began to stencil then onto blank canvases with spray paint.

Brown has taken on legendary status in Ferguson, as the spray paint marking the spot where he died indicates.

He would shake a chilled Coke, and then spray the soda into a cold glass of milk.