bedabble

Definitions

To dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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