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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To flow or fall in drops or in a thin stream.
  2. v. To move or proceed slowly or bit by bit: The audience trickled in.
  3. v. To cause to trickle.
  4. n. The act or condition of trickling.
  5. n. A slow, small, or irregular quantity that moves, proceeds, or occurs intermittently.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To flow in a small interrupted stream; run down in drops: as, water trickles from the eaves.
  2. To let fall a liquid in drops or small broken streams; drip.
  3. To pass or flow gently like a small stream.
  4. To cause to trickle; pour or shed in small, slow streams.
  5. n. A trickling stream; a rill.
  6. n. See the quotation.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A very thin river.
  2. n. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
  3. v. transitive to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
  4. v. intransitive to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
  5. v. intransitive To move or roll slowly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
  2. n. The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
  2. v. run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream

Etymologies

  1. Originally of tears; from strickle, frequentative of to strike, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English triklen, perhaps variant of striklen, frequentative of striken, to flow; see strike. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. drip
  1. flow
  1. streamlet

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. drip
  2. dribble
  3. rivulet
  4. ripple
  1. splash
  2. drizzle
  3. gurgle
  4. spurt
  1. puddle
  2. droplet
  3. tingle
  4. flicker
  1. sheen
  2. patter
  3. twinge
  4. swirl
  1. torrent
  2. murmur
  3. smear
  4. prickle
  1. gust
  2. tremor
  3. streak

rhymes (12)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Mikel
  2. Nicol
  1. brickle
  2. ferronickel
  1. fickle
  2. mickle
  1. nickel
  2. nickle
  1. pickle
  2. sickle
  1. stickle
  2. tickle

reverse dictionary (23)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. Epiphora
  2. distill
  3. thorn-house
  4. trinkle
  1. wort-cooler
  2. seep
  3. sigger
  4. sipe
  1. drill
  2. yosemite
  3. Yosemite Falls
  4. strain
  1. dribble
  2. trickle
  3. quick vinegar
  4. sicker
  1. tatta
  2. trill
  3. distil
  4. drip
  1. larmier
  2. sie
  3. rick

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