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trickle

DEFINITIONS OF: trickle

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v run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream

“water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose”
Synonyms:
dribble, filter
Types:
leach, percolate
permeate or penetrate gradually
Type of:
course, feed, flow, run
move along, of liquids

n flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid

Synonyms:
dribble, drip
Types:
intravenous drip
slow continuous drip introducing solutions intravenously (a drop at a time)
Type of:
flow, flowing
the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
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