drip

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drip /dr'ɪp/ (drips dripping dripped)
1 [VERB] V prep/adv, V, V n prep/adv
When liquid drips somewhere, or you drip it somewhere, it falls in individual small drops.
Sit your child forward and let the blood drip into a tissue or on to the floor...
Amid the trees the sea mist was dripping...
The children kept dripping Coke on the carpets.
2 [VERB] V, V with n, V n
When something drips, drops of liquid fall from it.
A tap in the kitchen was dripping...
Lou was dripping with perspiration...
He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor.
3 [N-COUNT]
A drip is a small individual drop of a liquid.
Drips of water rolled down the trousers of his uniform.
4 [N-COUNT]
A drip is a piece of medical equipment by which a liquid is slowly passed through a tube into a patient's blood.
I had a bad attack of pneumonia and spent two days in hospital on a drip.
5 [VERB] usu cont, V with n
If you say that something is dripping with a particular thing, you mean that it contains a lot of that thing. (LITERARY)
They were dazed by window displays dripping with diamonds and furs...
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see also drip-dry, dripping

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