drip
/dɹɪp/ · verb
Meaning
- To fall one drop at a time.
- To leak slowly.
- To let fall in drops.
- (usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
- (of the weather) To rain lightly.
- To be wet, to be soaked.
- A drop of a liquid.
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- 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.
- A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
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