drool
verb (used without object)
to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.
have drooled
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present perfectof drool.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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These films might have drooled over firearms, but not half as much as they drooled over human arms.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2018
The authoritarian snoops of the last century would have drooled over the surveillance uses of the smartphones that most of us now carry.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2018
USC's late and legendary Marv Goux would have drooled about this, about his love of big man versus big man, as he used to call it when his Trojans played Notre Dame in football.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2015
While some medications affected my mood, others — especially mood stabilizers — turned my formerly agile mind into mush, leaving me so stupefied that if my brain could have drooled, it would have.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013
I'd give five hundred dollars not to have drooled that drivel about being her brother!
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
