dripping
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Definitions ofdripping
- To fall one drop at a time.
Example: "Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!"
- To leak slowly.
Example: "Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?"
- To let fall in drops.
Example: "After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil."
- (usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
Example: "The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters."
- (of the weather) To rain lightly.
Example: "The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet."
- To be wet, to be soaked.
- To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
- Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
- The sound or action of something that drips.
Example: "Lying in bed, I could hear drippings from the leaky roof."
- The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.
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