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say it: DAB-uhld
dabbled is an adjective meaning "covered with bright patches (often used in combination)". 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.