Bedabble

Quick meaning: Bedabble is a verb meaning To dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.

Meaning

To dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.

Example Sentences

Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers, I can no further crawl, no further go.

A vision of her pale, sweet face, with her bright hair all bedabbled with gore, seemed to float constantly before his aching eyes.

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 […]

1912, Charles Egbert Craddoc (pseudonym of Mary Noailles Murfree), “The Crucial Moment” in The Raid of the Guerilla and Other Stories, Philadelphia: Lippincott, […] the weapon in Jeffrey's hand was discharged in his latest impulse of action after he fell to the floor, the blood gushing from a wound that crimsoned all the delicate whiteness of his shirt-front and bedabbled his snowy hair and beard.

Word Forms

• bedabbles
• bedabbling
• bedabbled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dabble, splutter, daggle, muddle, besplash, splash.

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