Synonyms for dabble
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Spatter — to make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to…
spatter, sprinkle, bespatter, besprinkle dated
2. Smatter
3. Splash around
splash around, paddle UK
Definitions
- v. 1
To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.
- v. 2
To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle.
The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.
- v. 3
To feed without diving, by submerging the head and neck underwater to seek food, often also tipping up the tail straight upwards above the water.
Forms
- Past participle
- dabbled
e.g. dabbled → spattered, sprinkled, bespattered, besprinkled…
Example sentences
- meddle He has no right to meddle in our family's problems.
By length
- 3 letters
- wet1
- 6 letters
- paddle2, meddle2
- 7 letters
- spatter2, moisten2, smatter2
- 8 letters
- sprinkle2
- 9 letters
- bespatter
- 10 letters
- besprinkle
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (paddle2 = 2 syllables).