Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bedabble
Participle: bedabbled
Gerund: bedabbling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bedabble |
| you | bedabble |
| he;she;it | bedabbles |
| we | bedabble |
| you | bedabble |
| they | bedabble |
Perfect
| I | have bedabbled |
| you | have bedabbled |
| he;she;it | has bedabbled |
| we | have bedabbled |
| you | have bedabbled |
| they | have bedabbled |
Past
| I | bedabbled |
| you | bedabbled |
| he;she;it | bedabbled |
| we | bedabbled |
| you | bedabbled |
| they | bedabbled |
Pluperfect
| I | had bedabbled |
| you | had bedabbled |
| he;she;it | had bedabbled |
| we | had bedabbled |
| you | had bedabbled |
| they | had bedabbled |
Future
| I | will bedabble |
| you | will bedabble |
| he;she;it | will bedabble |
| we | will bedabble |
| you | will bedabble |
| they | will bedabble |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bedabbled |
| you | will have bedabbled |
| he;she;it | will have bedabbled |
| we | will have bedabbled |
| you | will have bedabbled |
| they | will have bedabbled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bedabble |
| you | bedabble |
| he;she;it | bedabble |
| we | bedabble |
| you | bedabble |
| they | bedabble |
Perfect
| I | have bedabbled |
| you | have bedabbled |
| he;she;it | have bedabbled |
| we | have bedabbled |
| you | have bedabbled |
| they | have bedabbled |
Imperfect
| I | bedabbled |
| you | bedabbled |
| he;she;it | bedabbled |
| we | bedabbled |
| you | bedabbled |
| they | bedabbled |
Pluperfect
| I | had bedabbled |
| you | had bedabbled |
| he;she;it | had bedabbled |
| we | had bedabbled |
| you | had bedabbled |
| they | had bedabbled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bedabble |
| you | would bedabble |
| he;she;it | would bedabble |
| we | would bedabble |
| you | would bedabble |
| they | would bedabble |
Perfect
| I | would have bedabbled |
| you | would have bedabbled |
| he;she;it | would have bedabbled |
| we | would have bedabbled |
| you | would have bedabbled |
| they | would have bedabbled |
Imperative
| you | bedabble |
| we | Let's bedabble |
| you | bedabble |
Verbs conjugated like 'bedabble'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bedabble'
bedrabble,
babble,
bedaggle,
bedangle,
bedazzle,
bedribble,
brabble,
dabble,
beagle,
bedance,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
6. Proto-Germanic *bider.
7. Proto-Germanic *bi-
8. Proto-West Germanic *bi-
9. Old English be-
10. Middle English bi-
11. English be-
12. English dabble
13. English bedabble
14. From be- + dabble.
Sample Sentences
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Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers,
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I can no further crawl, no further go. [c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
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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 […] [1751, John Hill, chapter 7, in The Adventures of Mr. George Edwards, A Creole, London: T. Osborne, page 163:]
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A vision of her pale, sweet face, with her bright hair all bedabbled with gore, seemed to float constantly before his aching eyes. [1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 14, in Mary Barton:]
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1912, Charles Egbert Craddoc (pseudonym of Mary Noailles Murfree), “The Crucial Moment” in The Raid of the Guerilla and Other Stories, Philadelphia: Lippincott,
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[…] 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.