Past tense of dabble

Forms of dabble

Dabbled in a sentence

• The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.
• As a parish priest in England he had dabbled in the black arts, seduced a number of his congregation from their faith and finally celebrated the Black Mass.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 30
• To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.1904 January 30, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Priory School”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure…. From the entry crimson
• When Mussolini was a young chap, he dabbled with socialism, imagining it to be an open sesame to a better society.2001 September 24, Gareth McLean, “Sympathy for a devil”, in The Guardian. From the entry open sesame
• He did some work for the New York Public Library . . . and also dabbled in eleemosynary science for the Russell Sage Foundation.1918, Christopher Morley, “Owd Bob”, in Mince Pie. From the entry eleemosynary

Meaning of dabble

1. verb To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.
2. verb To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle.
3. verb To feed without diving, by submerging the head and neck underwater to seek food, often also tipping up the tail straight upwards above the water.

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Questions about the past tense of dabble

What is the past tense of dabble?

The past tense of dabble is dabbled.

What is the past participle of dabble?

The past participle of dabble is dabbled.

Is dabble a regular or irregular verb?

Dabble is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.