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say it: DAB-uhld
dabbled is an adjective meaning "covered with bright patches (often used in combination)". It is pronounced /ˈdæbəld/ — DAB-uhld. It carries one recorded sense.
covered with bright patches (often used in combination)
“waves dabbled with moonlight”
“a blood-spattered room”
“gardens splashed with color”
“kitchen walls splattered with grease”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dabbled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.