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drip
What does drip mean?
drip (verb): to fall one drop at a time.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use drip in a sentence?
- Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad! (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce drip?
/dɹɪp/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does drip come from?
From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English drypan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjaną (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to drip
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “drip” mean?
be obliged to pay or repay
Not quite: that's what owe means.
declare untrue; contradict
Not quite: that's what deny means.
put in the mind of someone
Not quite: that's what remind means.
to fall one drop at a time
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