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drip
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[ verb ] fall in drops
Examples "Water is dripping from the faucet" Used in print (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Standing in the shelter of the tent - a rejected hospital tent on which the rain now dripped , no_longer drumming - Adam watched his own hands touch the objects on the improvised counter of boards laid across two beef barrels . The rain dripped on the freezing loblolly of the street . (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)Half of it dripped down his chin . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)When the fate of the individual is visited on the group , then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ) , ah , then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted . (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)Big_Hans began pouring whisky in the kid 's mouth but his mouth filled without any getting down his throat and in a second it was dripping from his chin . |
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[ noun ] (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
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[ noun ] flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
Examples "there's a drip through the roof" Related terms |
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