0 present participle of dabble --
1 to take a slight and not very serious interest in a subject, or try a particular activity for a short period: --
She dabbled with drugs at university.
2 to put part of your body, such as your hand or foot, into the water of a pool or stream, etc. and move it around --
The dabbling in, and experimentation with, drugs and substances has always gone on.
I could not start dabbling in the business now.
It is all too easy, if these resources are dispersed, dabbling first in this disease and then in that, to achieve nothing in the end.
If one looks at the rest of the world, we are dabbling in foreign policy at the expense of our trade and our economy.
It has been dabbling with too many different objectives.
They are now dabbling in that sector of industry, where they are at the mercy of individual demand.
Dabbling with such complicated legislation as this automatically creates other hardships.
Instead of dabbling in politics, and offering half-baked political philosophy to boot, they would do better to look after the nation's spiritual needs.