Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mark with speckles, spots, or bright patches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To mark with speckles or spots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To add
speckles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb mark with small spots
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Examples
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All over the world, if not every day then in every age, beautiful paintings and poems and pieces of music and buildings are generated: one can almost imagine little flaring lights on the surface of the earth, like those seen in photos from space, though they are much more sparse and scattered than the illuminating devices that bespeckle our globe.
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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All over the world, if not every day then in every age, beautiful paintings and poems and pieces of music and buildings are generated: one can almost imagine little flaring lights on the surface of the earth, like those seen in photos from space, though they are much more sparse and scattered than the illuminating devices that bespeckle our globe.
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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