Trickle

Noun

Définitions

1.NounA very thin river.

"The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle."

2.NounA very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.

"The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night."

3.Verbto pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

"The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound."

4.Verbto flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.

"Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.; The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end."

5.VerbTo move or roll slowly.

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