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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An eddy caused by conflicting currents or tides; a tide-rip.

Wiktionary

  1. v. present participle of ripple.
  2. n. A motion or sound that ripples.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small wave on the surface of a liquid

Examples

  • “Larry approached the bed, his expression rippling between hopeful and worried.”

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  • “He thought about how she looked earlier that very day when she had let her true form roll over her - skin rippling to her true blue color, wings and antenna sprouting back into their rightful places (she was breathtaking).”

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  • “The little waves of the river glittered and shone and rolled lazily down upon the channel, or curled up in rippling eddies towards the shore.”

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  • “Its houses and public were of uneven height, which lent the city a kind of rippling quali well fitted to a metropolis surrounded by water.”

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  • “Its houses and public buildings were of uneven height, which lent the city a kind of rippling quality well fitted to a metropolis surrounded by water.”

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  • “She had flowing red hair, very full breasts, and a kind of rippling walk that forced him to avert his eyes lest he suffer an embarrassing reaction.”

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  • “The first process to which the freshly pulled flax is submitted is that of "rippling" or the removal of the seed capsules.”

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  • “Suspended graphene also showed "rippling" of the flat sheet, with amplitude of about one nanometer.”

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  • “Goldberg, a co-host, wondered who shot the footage and why the flag was "rippling" if there was no wind.”

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  • “His pump is rippling contractions up and down his abdomen at a pulse of approximately one pumping movement per second.”

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