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drip English

Meaning drip meaning

What does drip mean?
Definitions in simple English

drip Noun

— A drip is a small amount of water. The tap is spoiled. Water just keeps coming down drip by drip.

drip Verb

— If something is dripping, it is falling one drop at a time. My pen has been dripping throughout the day.

drip

— verb fall in drops Water is dripping from the faucet — noun (= dripping) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop the constant sound of dripping irritated him — noun flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid there's a drip through the roof — noun (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) — verb (= dribble, drop) let or cause to fall in drops dribble oil into the mixture

Synonyms drip synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as drip?

drip English » English

drop leak trickle dribble ooze drizzle dripping pour flow fall in drops sweat spill soak drip mould drip mold distil seep run drench drain water trickle down sprinkle seepage leak out get wet exude escape droplet blob bead wring wet well out weep water spout water dropper water drop turd trill trickling water till thug throating throat tear take in water stream down stream strain

Topics drip topics

What do people use drip to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Drip
Universe, creation Water

Movement of water
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Pour
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Rain

Conjugation drip conjugation

How do you conjugate drip?

drip · verb

Examples drip examples

How do I use drip in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I often have post-nasal drip.
I had an intravenous drip in hospital.
I don't like drip coffee.
I hear the buzz of a fan, the drip of the faucet, the hum of the fridge, the tick of the clock, the whoosh of cars passing by the house.

Movie subtitles

Couldn't we make these drip flaps a bit shorter, these spoons, you see.
Drip, drip, drop Little April shower What can compare With your beautiful sound?
People aren't going to spend their lives lying on their backs in the road letting grease drip on their faces.
Little drip.
He's just a drip, let's face it.
Well-basted, they drip a rich, red gravy.
Speak, or I'll cut your throat and leave you to drip like a hog in butchering time.
For four months this alleged angel of mercy has pored, probed, punctured, pillaged and plundered my helpless body while tormenting my mind with a steady drip of baby talk.
They are drip and dry.
I'd probably be an awful drip at the dance, Toots.
And don't drip any of that on the deck.
Remove the drip in an hour.
It's a drip-dry.
Bonsoir, drip-drap.
I've seen whole traitors. Well-basted, they drip a rich, red gravy.
Speak. Speak, or I'll cut your throat and leave you to drip like a hog in butchering time.
The drip.
It's a drip-dry. Wipe your eyes.
Drip-dry.
I left all my drip-dry dripping. Is that all right?
Take 'em to the kitchen before they drip all over.
Nowadays, that's one step from being told you're a drip.
Don't let any of it drip off.
Give me your plate or it'll drip!
I just don't like this drip calling me a peeping tom and telling me what i can and can't look at.
So you can go drip in there.
Why not unhook the drip too?
Can't you see I'm on a drip?
Position her body. so he can watch the piss drip.
Drip-drop, plip-plop Down the rain comes!
We didn't just read poetry we let it drip from our tongues like honey.
We want those dress shields hand-washed and drip-dried.
Is that a drip I hear?
Did it occur to you it could be turned off and drip at the same time? No.

News and current affairs

Mistaking a solvency problem for a liquidity shortfall, Europe has become hooked on the drip feed of bailouts.
Inefficient and loss-making state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain the primary beneficiaries of official economic policy, kept alive on a drip-feed of government subsidies and cheap loans from state-owned banks.
For starters, to ease some of the resource pressure, livestock producers should switch to water-saving technologies, including drip irrigation.
Yet the investment in drip irrigation is generally more expensive than less-efficient irrigation methods.
If a government is incapable of or uninterested in making the needed adjustments, the report argued, the best option is to drip money out as reforms are implemented, as is now being done in Greece.
The mandarins of northern Europe continue to measure out a drip-feed of support with coffee spoons.
The trouble is that Europe has been drip-feeding Ukraine, just as it has Greece.
A more likely scenario is that Europe muddles through by drip-feeding Ukraine.
The adoption of technologies like drip irrigation would make current water use seem primitive and outdated.
On the eighth floor, Jannie Burgess, a 79-year-old woman with advanced cancer, was on a morphine drip and close to death.

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