drip
[verb]
Synonyms:
- drop, dribble, exude, plop, splash, sprinkle, trickle
[noun]
Synonyms:
- drop, dribble, leak, trickle
- weakling, mummy's boy (informal), namby-pamby, softie (informal), weed (informal), wet (Brit. informal)

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Related Words: spatter, sprinkle, spurtle, gush, pour, sluice, stream

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English Thesaurus: flow, run, come out, pour, gush, ...

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I. drip¹ /drɪp/ verb (past tense and past participle dripped, present participle dripping)
[Language: Old English; Origin: dryppan; related to drop]

1. [intransitive and transitive] to let liquid fall in drops:
The tap’s dripping.
Her boots were muddy and her hair was dripping.
drip blood/water/sweat etc
John came in, his arm dripping blood.
be dripping with blood/sweat etc
The hand that held the gun was dripping with sweat.

2. [intransitive] to fall in drops
drip down/from etc
The rain dripped down his neck.
Water was dripping through the ceiling.

3. be dripping with something to contain or be covered in a lot of something
be dripping with jewels/gems/pearls etc
All the princes were dripping with gems.
His tone was now dripping with sarcasm.

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II. drip² noun

1. [countable] one of the drops of liquid that fall from something:
I put some plastic buckets on the floor to catch the drips.

2. [singular, uncountable] the sound or action of a liquid falling in drops:
The silence was broken only by a regular drip, drip, drip.

3. [countable] a piece of equipment used in hospitals for putting liquids directly into your blood through a tube Synonym : IV
be/put somebody on a drip
At the hospital they put me on a drip.

4. [countable] informal someone who is boring and weak

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drip
noun
I. water dripping
ADJ. slow, steady
PREP. ~ of the steady drip of water from the tap

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

drip
II. drop of water that falls down from sb/sth
VERB + DRIP catch There were buckets to catch the drips from the ceiling.
DRIP + VERB fall Drips fell from the roof of the cave.
PREP. ~ from drips from the tap

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drip
III. medical equipment
ADJ. intravenous | saline
VERB + DRIP fix up, set up | be attached to, be on He is on a saline drip.
attach sb to, put sb on | take sb off He was taken off his drip last night.

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flow if liquid flows, it moves in a steady continuous stream:
Blood flowed from his hand.
The river flows very quickly at this point.
run to flow – used when saying that something flows in a particular direction:
Water was running down the walls of the room.
Sweat ran off his nose.
The river runs into the sea.
come out to flow out of something:
You couldn't drink any of the water that came out of the tap.
pour to flow in large quantities:
The rain poured down.
Blood was pouring from a wound on his head.
gush to flow out quickly in very large quantities:
Water was gushing out at more than 3000 gallons a minute.
spurt to flow out suddenly with a lot of force:
Oil was spurting from a small hole in the pipe.
trickle to flow slowly in drops or in a thin stream:
Clare felt sweat trickling down the back of her neck.
leak to flow in or out through a small hole or crack, usually when this is not meant to happen:
Oil was leaking from the engine.
ooze to flow from something very slowly – used about blood or a thick liquid:
Blood was oozing from the wound.
Jam oozed out as she bit into the cake.
drip to fall in drops:
Water dripped from the tap continuously.
cascade to flow down the side of something in large amounts:
Water cascades down the hilllside.

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