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Dripped

Drip \Drip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drippedor Dript; p. pr. & vb. n. Dripping.] [Akin to LG. drippen, Dan. dryppe, from a noun. See Drop.]

  1. To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

  2. To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.

    The dark round of the dripping wheel.
    --Tennyson.

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dripped

vb. (en-past of: drip)

WordNet
drip
  1. n. flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: trickle, dribble]

  2. the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop; "the constant sound of dripping irritated him" [syn: dripping]

  3. (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) [syn: drip mold, drip mould]

  4. [also: dripping, dripped]

drip
  1. v. fall in drops; "Water is dripping from the faucet"

  2. let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture" [syn: dribble, drop]

  3. [also: dripping, dripped]

dripped

See drip

Usage examples of "dripped".

They delivered whatever they were carrying to a complicated filtration system, which in turn steadily dripped its end result into a series of unlabeled containers.

No sane person would have done what they wanted, taken the risks he had, and bathed in blood till it dripped from his soul.

Soon the catwalk was littered with the dead and the dying, and slick with rivers of blood that dripped from the edges of the catwalk in another endless rain.

The shying pterabird balked at passing under a low arch of brick that dripped stalactites of beetle mucus.

One woman held her glass in a metal claw that spat steam and dripped oil onto the floorboards.

He dipped doughy bread into it regularly and sucked at the resulting mess, chewing but not biting off, gnawing and worrying at the saliva-fouled bread that dripped wan yellow onto his desk.

She entered through the doorless threshold and picked her way over building debris, through a short unlit passage that virtually dripped with damp.

For ten minutes, constructs and humans dripped steadily into the hollow at the heart of Dump Two.

He shook them both briefly, then opened the stopper on one and dripped it quickly across the thicket of wires.

All around water trickled and dripped, poured and rushed, making the tower echo like a sea cave.

Foster lay dead on the ground, blood soaking into the soil as it dripped from his open disposal valve.

They dripped sour water across the Great Loop Highway like botanical stalactites.

Blood dripped continually through his fingers, splattering on the steps.

Blood dripped out of the cut, but he knew the flow would be worse if he took the glass out.

Saliva dripped from its jaw, and I swear it hissed when it hit the floor.