douse vs dabble

douse and dabble both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
douse	No	No	Yes	No
dabble	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, dabble is a hyponym of douse; that is, dabble is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than douse:

Other hyponyms of douse include sop, dip, douse, duck.

douse (verb)	dabble (verb)
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto	dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
slacken	bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
lower quickly	play in or as if in water, as of small children
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate	work with in an amateurish manner
dip into a liquid
wet thoroughly
put out, as of a candle or a light