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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)

  1. 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

bedabble meaning in Tamil and Urdu

bedabble in Tamil

நனைவி, கறைப்படுத்து

bedabble in Urdu

تر کرنا

Forms of bedabble

third-person singular presentbedabbles
present participlebedabbling
past participlebedabbled
pastbedabbled

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

  1. bed-wetters
  2. bed-wetting
  3. bed-wettingly
  4. bed-wettings
  5. Beda
  6. bedabble
  7. bedabbled
  8. bedabbles
  9. bedabbling
  10. bedad
  11. bedaff

Source and license

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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