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drip

/dɹɪp/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To fall one drop at a time.
  2. To leak slowly.
  3. To let fall in drops.
  4. (usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
  5. (of the weather) To rain lightly.
  6. To be wet, to be soaked.
  7. A drop of a liquid.
  8. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  9. An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
  10. A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
  11. That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
  12. A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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