bedabble
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 8
Definition of bedabble
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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To dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.
“Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers, I can no further crawl, no further go.”
“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 […]”
“A vision of her pale, sweet face, with her bright hair all bedabbled with gore, seemed to float constantly before his aching eyes.”
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From be- + dabble.
Words you can make from bedabble
65 playable · top: BABBLED (14 pts)
Best play babbled 14 points7-letter words
1 word6-letter words
3 words5-letter words
8 words4-letter words
20 words3-letter words
21 words2-letter words
11 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
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