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drip

[drip]
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verb (used without object), dripped or dript, drip·ping.
  1. to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
  2. to fall in drops, as a liquid.
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verb (used with object), dripped or dript, drip·ping.
  1. to let fall in drops.
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noun
  1. an act of dripping.
  2. liquid that drips.
  3. the sound made by falling drops: the irritating drip of a faucet.
  4. Slang. an unattractive, boring, or colorless person.
  5. (in house painting) the accumulation of solidified drops of paint at the bottom of a painted surface.
  6. 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.
  7. a pipe for draining off condensed steam from a radiator, heat exchanger, etc.
  8. Medicine/Medical. intravenous drip.
  9. Slang. maudlin sentimentality.
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Origin of drip

before 1000; Middle English dryppe, Old English dryppan; cf. drop
Related formsnon·drip, adjective

Synonyms

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

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Examples from the Web for dripped

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Historical Examples

  • 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.

British Dictionary definitions for dripped

drip

verb drips, dripping or dripped
  1. to fall or let fall in drops
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noun
  1. the formation and falling of drops of liquid
  2. the sound made by falling drops
  3. architect a projection at the front lower edge of a sill or cornice designed to throw water clear of the wall below
  4. informal an inane, insipid person
  5. med
    1. the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of a therapeutic solution, as of salt or sugar
    2. the solution administered
    3. the equipment used to administer a solution in this way
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Word Origin

Old English dryppan, from dropa drop
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Word Origin and History for dripped

drip

v.

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.

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drip

n.

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).

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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
dripped in Medicine

drip

(drĭp)
n.
  1. The process of forming and falling in drops.
  2. Moisture or liquid such as medication that falls in drops.
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v.
  1. To fall in drops.
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