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Definition of dabbled : of Dabble

Synonyms:

spattered, splashy, splattered, splashed, covered

Usage examples:

• The English must go down with it- just as Rome went down when she dabbled in Christianity. - "King--of the Khyber Rifles", Talbot Mundy.
• Then in the evening, towards night, it fell to thunder, lighten, and rain so violently that my house was all afloat, and I in all the rain up to the gutters, and there dabbled in the rain and wet half an hour, enough to have killed a man. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.
• But soon their skins turned cold, for there came a galloping across the moor, and the black mare, dabbled with white froth, went past with trailing bridle and empty saddle. - "The Hound of the Baskervilles", A. Conan Doyle.