Synonyms for drip

Most common

trickle · ooze · percolate

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Antonyms

torrent

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Definitions

1. n. 1

   A drop of a liquid.

   I need a bucket to catch the drips.

2. v. 1

   To fall one drop at a time.

   Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!

Related words

Word family

dripless drippage dripper drippy dripstone drip-dry

Phrases

drip tip drip loss drip coffee drip irrigation drip line drip point intravenous drip

Forms

Plural

drips → trickles, oozes, percolates, noses…

Past participle

dripped
e.g. dripped → dropped, dribbled, drizzled, weeped…

Example sentences

• trickle Sami's problems would sometimes trickle over to me.
• ooze After a while, passion and infatuation ooze away.
• nose I don't poke my nose into other people's business.
• corona During Corona period every person was praying at home.
• intravenous I had an intravenous drip in hospital.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

drop¹, nose¹, weep¹, ooze¹

6 letters

corona³, distil²

7 letters

trickle², dribble², drizzle², distill²

9 letters

percolate³, dripstone

10 letters

watershoot

11 letters

intravenous⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (corona³ = 3 syllables).