spray
verb/spreɪ/
/spreɪ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they spray | /spreɪ/ /spreɪ/ |
| he / she / it sprays | /spreɪz/ /spreɪz/ |
| past simple sprayed | /spreɪd/ /spreɪd/ |
| past participle sprayed | /spreɪd/ /spreɪd/ |
| -ing form spraying | /ˈspreɪɪŋ/ /ˈspreɪɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to cover somebody/something with very small drops of a liquid that are forced out of a container or sent through the air
- spray (something) (on/onto/over somebody/something) Spray the conditioner onto your wet hair.
- Champagne sprayed everywhere.
- spray somebody/something (with something) The crops are regularly sprayed with pesticide.
- spray something + adj. She's had the car sprayed blue.
- [transitive, intransitive] to cover somebody/something with a lot of small things with a lot of force
- spray somebody/something with something The gunman sprayed the building with bullets.
- + adv./prep. Pieces of glass sprayed all over the room.
- [intransitive] (especially of a male cat) to leave small amounts of urine to mark its own area
Word Originverb early 17th cent. (earlier as spry): related to Middle Dutch spra(e)yen ‘sprinkle’.
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