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Word entry · 7 letters

trickle

Best crossword clue

"Flow slowly"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɹɪkəl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ceiklrtStarts with TEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream

Word origin

From Middle English triklen, likely a rebracketing (e.g. teres strikled > teerys trikled (“tears trickled”)) of Middle English striklen (“to trickle”), equivalent to strike + -le.

Used in a sentence

  • The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
  • The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
  • The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.

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