TRICKLE

trickle

Noun

  1. A very thin river.
    The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
  2. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
    The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

Verb

  1. to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
    The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  2. to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
    Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
    The film ws so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
  3. To move or roll slowly.


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