drip

[drip]

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verb (used without object), dripped or dript, drip·ping.

to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.

to fall in drops, as a liquid.

verb (used with object), dripped or dript, drip·ping.

to let fall in drops.

noun

an act of dripping.

liquid that drips.

the sound made by falling drops: the irritating drip of a faucet.

Slang. an unattractive, boring, or colorless person.

(in house painting) the accumulation of solidified drops of paint at the bottom of a painted surface.

Architecture, Building Trades. any device, as a molding, for shedding rain water to keep it from running down a wall, falling onto the sill of an opening, etc.

a pipe for draining off condensed steam from a radiator, heat exchanger, etc.

Medicine/Medical. intravenous drip.

Slang. maudlin sentimentality.

Origin of drip

before 1000; Middle English dryppe, Old English dryppan; cf. drop

Related formsnon·drip, adjective

Synonyms for drip

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2. trickle, dribble, leak, sprinkle, drizzle.

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Related Words for dripped

sprinkle, plop, rain, drizzle, filter, splash, weep, exude, dribble, trill

Examples from the Web for dripped

Contemporary Examples of dripped

It was a review of Lady Macbeth, and it dripped with malice.
When Stalin Met Lady Macbeth
Brian Moynahan
November 9, 2014
It dripped down from my head to my toes in slow motion, as if treacle had been poured over me.
I Was Australia’s Anna Wintour
Kirstie Clements
April 3, 2014
Beside a statue of Mordecai Anielewicz, the hero of the Warsaw uprising, dripped a crude cartoon of an Auschwitz-bound train.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Vandalize Jerusalem’s Holocaust Memorial
Alex Klein
June 11, 2012

Historical Examples of dripped

From head to foot they dripped with black mud, thick and slimy.
Three Margarets
Laura E. Richards
It dripped and pattered off the skin-covering on to the boat and on to the rocks.
Left on Labrador
Charles Asbury Stephens
"The minute you dripped water on that thing you changed," Shann continued.
Storm Over Warlock
Andre Norton
He was covered with thick gray fur which dripped with thick black mud.
The Native Soil
Alan Edward Nourse
Tears filled his eyes and ran over and dripped from his nose.
Mother West Wind "How" Stories
Thornton W. Burgess

British Dictionary definitions for dripped

drip

verb drips, dripping or dripped

to fall or let fall in drops

noun

the formation and falling of drops of liquid

the sound made by falling drops

architect a projection at the front lower edge of a sill or cornice designed to throw water clear of the wall below

informal an inane, insipid person

med

the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of a therapeutic solution, as of salt or sugar
the solution administered
the equipment used to administer a solution in this way

Word Origin for drip

Old English dryppan, from dropa drop

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Word Origin and History for dripped

drip

c.1300, perhaps from Middle Danish drippe, from Proto-Germanic *drup- (cf. Dutch druipen, German triefen), from PIE root *dhreu-. Related to droop and drop. Old English had cognate drypan "to let drop," dropian "fall in drops," and dreopan "to drop." Related: Dripped; dripping.

drip

mid-15c., from drip (v.). The slang meaning "stupid, feeble, or dull person" is first recorded 1932, perhaps from earlier American English slang sense "nonsense" (1919).

dripped in Medicine

drip

[drĭp]

n.

The process of forming and falling in drops.

Moisture or liquid such as medication that falls in drops.

v.

To fall in drops.