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Noun speckle has 1 sense
- spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation - a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
--1 is a kind of marking
--1 has particulars:
Verb speckle has 2 senses
- stipple, speckle - produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees"
--1 is one way to mottle, dapple, cloud
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- speckle, bespeckle - mark with small spots; "speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots"
--2 is one way to spot, fleck, blob, blot
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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