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- Dictionarytrick·le/ˈtrik(ə)l/
verb
- 1. (of a liquid) flow in a small stream: "a solitary tear trickled down her cheek"
- 2. come, go, or appear slowly or gradually: "the first members of the congregation began to trickle in"
noun
- 1. a small flow of liquid: "a trickle of blood"
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The meaning of TRICKLE is to issue or fall in drops. How to use trickle in a sentence.
a very small number of people or things arriving or leaving somewhere: We usually only get a trickle of customers in the mornings. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Words meaning small pieces and amounts. by a nose idiom. clipping. crumb. dab of something. dash. dollop. grain. ort. paring. peewee. pinch. potsherd. skinny. spark. tad.
Trickle definition: to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream. See examples of TRICKLE used in a sentence.
To trickle is to weakly flow out of something, like a faucet. A trickle is like a drip. There are a lot of ways water can flow, but one type of slow dripping is called trickling.
When people or things trickle in a particular direction, they move there slowly in small groups or amounts, rather than all together.
TRICKLE meaning: 1. If liquid trickles somewhere, it flows slowly and without force in a thin line: 2. to arrive or…. Learn more.
[intransitive, transitive] trickle (something) + adv./prep. to go, or to make something go, somewhere slowly or gradually. People began trickling into the hall. News is starting to trickle out.
1. to run or cause to run in thin or slow streams: she trickled the sand through her fingers. 2. ( intr) to move, go, or pass gradually: the crowd trickled away. n. 3. a thin, irregular, or slow flow of something. 4. the act of trickling. [C14: perhaps of imitative origin] ˈtrickling adj. ˈtricklingly adv. ˈtrickly adj.
TRICKLE definition: 1. If liquid trickles somewhere, it flows slowly and in a thin line: 2. to go somewhere slowly in…. Learn more.
Trickle definition: to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream. See examples of TRICKLE used in a sentence.
