0 past simple and past 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
Although he had previously dabbled with psychoanalysis, at this point he was not formally trained.
During a sad time in my friend's life, when his family suffered a tragic loss, he dabbled in drugs.
I remember one more thing from having dabbled in tactics 10 years ago: one should reinforce success and on no account reinforce failure.
He suggested that those of us who occasionally dabbled in newspapers had not shown much ability in that form of speculation in the past.
Then we dabbled extensively in baskets of currencies of various compositions and shapes but never arrived at a pattern that met our criteria.
We believe that politicians have dabbled for too long in the detailed process of wage bargaining.
Is there any reason to be ashamed of having dabbled in politics and being politicians?
I have dabbled with the idea of legislation that embraces a code of practice suggesting the way forward for companies so that there could be some yardstick.
