DABBLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dabbled mean? 

• DABBLED (adjective)
  The adjective DABBLED has 1 sense:

1. covered with bright patches (often used in combination)

  Familiarity information: DABBLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DABBLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with bright patches (often used in combination)

Synonyms:

dabbled; spattered; splashed; splattered

Context example:

kitchen walls splattered with grease

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were a number of hangers-on and outsiders about the Commons, who, without being proctors themselves, dabbled in common-form business, and got it done by real proctors, who lent their names in consideration of a share in the spoil;—and there were a good many of these too.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)