sprayed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of spray.

   Firefighters sprayed foam across the burning fuel until the flames died down.

   The back tires sprayed gravel in every direction as the truck skidded out.

   Note

   Whatever is sprayed can be the substance or the target: firefighters sprayed foam on the fuel, or sprayed the fuel with foam. Without an object, the liquid does the action itself, as when water sprayed from a burst pipe. Specialists stretch it further: a player sprayed a long pass across the field, and an attacker sprayed a heap with the same bytes.

2. 2
   adjectiveobsoleteUK

   Chapped by cold, as skin roughened and cracked in freezing weather.

   Note

   Britain's dialects once used this word for skin cracked by frost, and it has long since dropped out of use. It is a separate word from the past form of spray, though identical on the page, so sprayed hands in an older text can mean raw ones rather than wet ones.

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