to trickle
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3.4
- verb
- /ˈtrɪkəl/
:
gotear
- When I returned, Tim was quiet and withdrawn, tears still trickling down his cheeks.
- water trickled
- tears trickled
- blood trickled
I don't think, though, that it's trickled into mainstream psychiatry.
- I don't think, though, that it's trickled into mainstream psychiatry.
- And then it trickles into daily intentions.
- And that, you know, trickles down, it does to working people.
- And that always worries me that it won't trickle down quite the way we all hope it will.
- The way the sequins just like trickle down the dress like morning dew on a leaf.
- I mean, is it possible that if the market keeps trickling up, I just sold low?
- But still it's these types of things that continue to trickle out that damage her.
- And it's just, it's starting to become too much and it's trickling into everyone's lives off camera.
- The the reason they trickle it is to keep you there.
Examples
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Rain trickled down through the plaster and the light fixtures.
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A thin, dark line of water trickles along, barely keeping the Ewaso Nyiro alive.
Academic text (2011) -
Ben took up a handful of sand and let it trickle through his fingers.
Fiction book (1990) -
Every now and then, a lead trickles in from somewhere.
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News of the find had been trickling out of the area for the past year.
Academic text (2008) -
Some colonies had already been freed, and others would trickle into independence during the next two decades.
Academic text (1995) -
There was actually moisture trickling down my leg.
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The contest winners are starting to trickle in, but I heard it's gonna be slammed - once the doors open.
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In the months following the Confederate collapse, soldiers trickled into Bartow County in a piecemeal fashion.
Academic text (2008) -
Water from the leaky faucet trickles slowly into the sink.
Synonyms
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2.7
To move slowly through small holes or cracks
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2.5
To flow down a surface like water on a window
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2.7
To pour a thin stream of liquid slowly over food
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2.8
To let liquid or saliva fall in small drops
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1.4
Liquid falls in small drops down a surface
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3.5
Liquid flows slowly out of something through small holes
1
2.6
To rain in small light drops
1
4.8
To flow slowly through small holes or cracks
To move away from a surface in a steady stream, like water does
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word trickle originally copied the sound of small drops, much like drip, and people used it for slow water movement. So to trickle is 'to flow slowly' in drops or a thin stream.