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dabble has 4 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for dabble come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
work with in an amateurish manner
“She dabbles in astronomy”
bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
“dabbling ducks”