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bedrabble

bedrabble verb: to make dirty or wet, e.g. with rain and mud.

Verb

bedrabble (third-person singular simple present bedrabbles, present participle bedrabbling, simple past and past participle bedrabbled)

  1. (transitive) To make dirty or wet, e.g. with rain and mud.

Forms of bedrabble

third-person singular presentbedrabbles
present participlebedrabbling
past participlebedrabbled
pastbedrabbled

Origin of bedrabble

From Middle English bedrabelen, equivalent to be- + drabble.

Questions about bedrabble

What does bedrabble mean?
Bedrabble means to make dirty or wet, e.g. with rain and mud.
What part of speech is bedrabble?
Bedrabble is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedrabble?
The past tense of bedrabble is bedrabbled.

Words near bedrabble in the dictionary

  1. bedplates
  2. bedpost
  3. bedposts
  4. bedquilt
  5. bedquilts
  6. bedrabble
  7. bedrabbled
  8. bedrabbles
  9. bedrabbling
  10. bedraggle
  11. bedraggled

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