Sekirov Dictionary

trickle

/ˈtɹɪkəl/

verb 3
noun 2
forms 4
phrases 2

verb3

•
to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
•
to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
•
To move or roll slowly.
- Some [marbles] were found in a child's grave at Nagada, Egypt […] together with a set of ninepins and three rectangular bricks which could have formed an arch through which to trickle the balls. — 1971

noun2

•
A very thin river.
- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
•
A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

forms

trickled · trickling · trickles · trickleth

Phrases with trickle

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