drips 1 of 2

plural of drip
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as in bores
someone or something boring he's well-meaning, but kind of a drip

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as in beads
the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass the faucet leaked one drip after another no matter what I did to try to fix it

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drips

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verb

present tense third-person singular of drip
as in flows
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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“Drips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drips. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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