drivel
noun
saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
driveled
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past participleof drivel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof drivel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
drivelnounsaliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
Example Sentences
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His mouth was drawn awry, his speech entirely inarticulate, his eye obscured by thick rheum, and his clothes were stained by the saliva that occasionally driveled from his lips.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft
He had driveled along respectably so far, he thought, but he had the sentimental longings of years, starved of expression, culminating in his heart.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington
A painfully homely face with tears running from the closed eyes, with an open mouth that driveled and drooled.
From The Cost by David Graham Phillips
All the way up the mountain he driveled to me about asparagus on toast, a thing that his intelligence in life had skipped.
From The Gentle Grafter by H. C. Greening
So Mrs. Finch driveled mildly on, in her large loose untidy handwriting, to the bottom of the third page.
From Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
