rippling
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- noun
- /ˈrɪplɪŋ/
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ondulación
- Watery, womb-like sounds rise out of nowhere: the rippling of water, a heart beating.
- rippling of water
They're not waves like a breeze kicking up some ripples on a lake.
- They're not waves like a breeze kicking up some ripples on a lake.
- The windlash marsh reads, a wide blurred ripple all around me.
- And one small act like a like a Pebble in a pond sends out ripples beyond your imagination.
- movements on the surface like waves and ripples on the surface of a vast ocean
- So in my Zen garden, I have the ripples around the structures, the art, the plants, the rocks.
Examples
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"Before Chemayev could react, the rippling started up once again, accompanied by a dimming of the lights."
Fiction book (2001) -
Now here you're going to see like ripples form and that's like the expectation path.
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Provided, of course, she does not wake and the rippling in her stomach remains light.
Fiction book (1992) -
Yet still I felt it: a rippling in my mind, stronger than I had ever known.
Fiction book (1993) -
There are no creases or ripples on the flat surfaces.
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So in my Zen garden, I have the ripples around the structures, the art, the plants, the rocks.
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Once the rippling ceased, Chemayev found that he was standing at a remove of some forty feet from Nicolai.
Fiction book (2001) -
They're not waves like a breeze kicking up some ripples on a lake.
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His father laughed, not unkindly, then grabbed a rusted bucket from the prow and dove into the rippling surrounding brownness.
Fiction book (1996) -
The small pond had a gentle rippling on its surface, reflecting the sunlight.
Synonyms
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A small wave on water made by a light touch or breeze
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A smooth, wavy shape or movement like small waves
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A small ripple on water caused by a light wind or current
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A small wave on the surface of water made by wind or an object
Antonyms
How Wavy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rippling comes from the simple word ripple, a word that copies the soft movement of small waves. So a rippling is a 'small wave' or a gentle movement across the surface of water.