drip

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  1. intransitive verb To fall in drops: Water is dripping from that leaky faucet.
  2. intransitive verb To shed drops: an umbrella that is dripping all over the floor.
  3. intransitive verb To ooze or be saturated with or as if with liquid: a speech that dripped with sarcasm.

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  • Drip, drip, drip -- the MSM coverup of the Presidential bow before the financier of radical Islam —  American Thinker
  • I went in expecting Bloody Mary and drip, drip, drip-what I got was streakers at Dennys and a cat with a dislike for firemen. —  DVD Verdict
  • He had heard it go drip-drip, drip-drip, as Mahommed Ibrahim prayed Drink," he said, and pointed with his finger. —  Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
  • A faint musical drip, as of falling water, strengthened this notion; but I did not try to follow it out, for my head throbbed severely. —  Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
  • Far off in the darkness sounded the steady drip, drip, drip of water, and several times our progress was stopped by black lakes into which a tossed stone would tell of depths that might be almost bottomless. —  In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

trickle ·  drizzle ·  splash ·  gurgle ·  patter ·  droplet ·  dribble ·  rivulet ·  smear ·  plash ·  thud ·  throb

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drip:   dripped ·  dripping ·  drips
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English drippen; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English dryppen (rare), from Anglo-Saxon dryppan (preterit drypte, imperative dryp; also drypian, preterit *drypede, imperative drype), cause to drop, let fall (= Swedish drypa = Danish dryppe, drip), a causative verb associated with the rarer secondary forms dropian (dial. drupian; preterit dropede, dial. drupede) and droppan (preterit *dropte), whence English drop, v., from dreópan, past participle *dropen, preterit *dreáp, plural *drupon (occurring, if at all, only in uncertain passages, but no doubt once existent), Middle English drepen, drop, fall, = Old Saxon driopan (preterit drōp) = OFries. driapa = Dutch druipen = Old High German triufan, German triefen (preterit troff) = Icelandic drjūpa (preterit draup), drop, drip. See drop, and cf. drib, v., dribble.
  2. from Middle English dryppe, later drippe = Danish dryp, a drop: see drop, n. In the other senses from the verb. Cf. drib, n.
 

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