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[ trik-uhl ] / ˈtrɪk əl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR trickle ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used without object), trick·led, trick·ling.to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream: Tears trickled down her cheeks. to come, go, or pass bit by bit, slowly, or irregularly: The guests trickled out of the room. verb (used with object), trick·led, trick·ling.nouna trickling flow or stream. a small, slow, or irregular quantity of anything coming, going, or proceeding: a trickle of visitors throughout the day. Origin of trickle1325–75; Middle English triklen, trekelen (v.), apparently sandhi variant of strikle, perhaps equivalent to strike (in obsolete sense “flow”) + -le SYNONYMS FOR trickle4 dribble, seepage, drip. SEE SYNONYMS FOR trickle ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM trickletrick·ling·ly, adverbWords nearby trickletrick cyclist, trick ending, trickery, trickish, trick knee, trickle, trickle charge, trickle charger, trickle-down, trickle-down theory, trickle irrigation Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for trickleSuch systems need only a trickle of power to smell smoke or detect rising heat, he says. Trees power this alarm system for remote forest fires|Stephen Ornes|October 16, 2020|Science News For Students Before that, the water just wasn’t there—or if it was, perhaps it was a trickle or a stream. How the truth was murdered|Abby Ohlheiser|October 7, 2020|MIT Technology Review The cash spigot that had been flowing to startups throughout Magic Leap’s lifetime slowed to a trickle this year when the coronavirus pandemic struck. Magic Leap tried to create an alternate reality. Its founder was already in one|Verne Kopytoff|September 26, 2020|Fortune A plant satiated on NPK fertilizers reaches for the exudate tap with leafy hands and turns it down to a trickle. Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too - Issue 90: Something Green|Anne Biklé & David R. Montgomery|September 23, 2020|Nautilus
Since the onset of the pandemic, each day has brought a slow trickle of restaurant closures, but now, they’re coming in waves. Is the Government Just Going to Watch the Restaurant Industry Die?|Elazar Sontag|August 28, 2020|Eater Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, many old Nazis managed discreetly to trickle back to what they regarded as the Fatherland. Hitler’s Henchmen in Arabia|Guy Walters|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST In the meantime, much of the book is already available online, and scholarly criticism has already started to trickle in. Jesus Christ, Baby Daddy?|Candida Moss|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST Months after the president stepped in to save the Yazidis from genocide, the airstrikes have slowed to a trickle. Yazidis Face Genocide by ISIS After U.S. Turns Away|Josh Rogin|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST In days of yore, blood on screen was to be feared: think the trickle of blood signaling defilement in old vampire movies. Sex, Blood and Maroon 5: Pop Culture’s Wounds Run Deep|Lizzie Crocker|October 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST By the time Sotloff arrived in town, the flow of journalists in and out of Aleppo had diminished to less than a trickle. Was U.S. Journalist Steven Sotloff a Marked Man?|Ben Taub|September 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST Very soon, almost unbelievably soon, they began to trickle back. Where the Trail Divides|Will Lillibridge Going to school or coming home, a trickle of water would stop him. Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete|George Meredith Half consciously I wiped away a tear that began to trickle down my cheek. The Indians' Last Fight|Dennis Collins The crowd began to trickle down the long steps to the feast in the mess hall. The Cup of Fury|Rupert Hughes Charles was fairly dry, except for a trickle of icy water following a contour that meandered to his left knee. The Syndic|C.M. Kornbluth
British Dictionary definitions for trickle
verbto run or cause to run in thin or slow streamsshe trickled the sand through her fingers (intr) to move, go, or pass graduallythe crowd trickled away nouna thin, irregular, or slow flow of something the act of trickling Derived forms of trickletrickling, adjectivetricklingly, adverbtrickly, adjectiveWord Origin for trickleC14: perhaps of imitative origin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to tricklestream, seep, leak, flow, ooze, percolate, crawl, dribble, creep, issue, drop, drip, distill, weep, exude, trill |