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noun
- a very thin river
- The brook had shrunk to a mere .
- a very thin flow; the act of trickling
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the drives me mad at night.
Translations: - German: Trí¶pfeln , Getrí¶pfel
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verb to trickle
- (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- The film ws so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
Translations: - German: trí¶pfeln
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Etymology: Originally of tears; from "strickle", frequentative of "to strike", by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).
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