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drip

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/dɹɪp/ English

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verb

  1. To fall one drop at a time.“Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!”
  2. To leak slowly.“Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?”
  3. To let fall in drops.“After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.”
  4. (usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.“The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.”

noun

  1. A drop of a liquid.“I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.”
  2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  3. An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.“He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.”
  4. A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.“He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!”

noun

  1. A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

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