dripped

past tense of drip
as in flowed
to fall or let fall in or as if in drops water from the leaky roof was dripping all over the floor the cracked bottle dripped wine

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Recent Examples of dripped After pounding his drive down the final fairway, Fox hit his approach to just inside 12 feet and then dripped his birdie putt into the edge of the cup to win the 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. Dan Zaksheske, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026 Blood dripped from his head; his father and daughter had various injuries. Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026 During a session, the molecule is mixed with saline and dripped into a vein over one to four hours. Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2026 The dress’s mermaid-esque skirt dripped in feathers all the way down. Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 9 June 2026 Sections lower in the nozzle that were not cooled began to overheat and sag while molten plastic dripped from the engine outlet. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026 Also featured on the summer menu will be a new Unicorn Cake Pop, featuring vanilla cake mixed with confetti sprinkles, dripped in white chocolate icing and decorated with a unicorn face. Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 11 May 2026 Eight videos at 15 minutes each is two hours of content, dripped out to new email subscribers over a week. Daren Smith, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2026 Bristowe shared a video of herself in a post-op bra with drains attached, as fluid dripped through tubes. Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dripped
Verb
  • Iran has also created a new pressure point to use against adversaries by blockading the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas flowed before the war.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
  • Urban runoff filled with a noxious brew of fertilizers, stormwater and sewage has flowed into the Seminole County lake from as far as Orlando, Winter Park and Altamonte Springs for decades.
    Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026
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  • After Saturday’s 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers, the entire Kansas City Royals dugout poured onto the field.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
  • The design team’s influence waned as Apple poured its energy into manufacturing the iPhone and other bestsellers with military precision at massive scale.
    Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 25 July 2026
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  • Earlier this month, Godwin kicked off the Christian Name Tour, which will run through November and take him coast to coast — with come co-headline appearances with Dylan Gossett sprinkled in during August and September.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2026
  • In most cases, the honest answer is a pilot here, a copilot there—AI sprinkled onto processes that were never designed for it.
    Karthik Kannan, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • In October 2025, Baumgarten dropped his claims against both Opera Carolina and Williams, court documents show.
    Catherine Muccigrosso July 24, Charlotte Observer, 24 July 2026
  • The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office later dropped the felony count.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • Instagram face has kind of trickled down to the general population.
    Tonya Mosley, NPR, 22 July 2026
  • David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage rates continued their climb last week, but homebuyers trickled back into the market, perhaps taking advantage of less competition and some price cuts.
    Diana Olick, CNBC, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • The latest release might be one of the most intriguing, however, because this is the first release from the brand that is composed entirely of whiskey distilled at its small Whiskey Row location on Main Street in Louisville.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 26 July 2026
  • The whiskey was distilled in Indiana, aged for two decades in Kentucky and bottled at a hefty cask strength of 137 proof.
    Emily Price, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

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“Dripped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dripped. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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