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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If you have drooled over the TV version of Sidney Chambers, the crime-solving English vicar on PBS’ “Grantchester,” you may be surprised by the books they’re based on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2020
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
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
