bedabble
bedabble verb: to dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.
Verb
bedabble (third-person singular simple present bedabbles, present participle bedabbling, simple past and past participle bedabbled)
- To dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.
- Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers,
I can no further crawl, no further go.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First... - The rest was fill’d somewhat indiscriminately, with Philosophers, Antiquarians, Mathematicians, and Mechanics. A Scotch Peasant produc’d a New Orrery; a German Mechanic, a Table Fountain contriv’d to play in a Desert, to the great Entertainment, and Bedabbling of every body present […]1751, John Hill, chapter 7, in The Adventures of Mr. George Edwards, A Creole, London: T. Osborne, page 163
- Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers,
bedabble meaning in Tamil and Urdu
bedabble in Tamil
- நனைவி, கறைப்படுத்து
bedabble in Urdu
- تر کرنا
Forms of bedabble
| third-person singular present | bedabbles |
|---|---|
| present participle | bedabbling |
| past participle | bedabbled |
| past | bedabbled |
Origin of bedabble
From be- + dabble.
Questions about bedabble
- What does bedabble mean?
- Bedabble means to dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.
- What is bedabble in Tamil?
- Bedabble in Tamil is நனைவி, கறைப்படுத்து. See Bedabble meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is bedabble?
- Bedabble is a verb.
- What is the past tense of bedabble?
- The past tense of bedabble is bedabbled.
Words near bedabble in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedabble (page history and authors); bedabble (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bedabble (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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