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Definition drip

Etymology 1

From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English dryppan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjan? (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”), Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”).

Verb

drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

  1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
  2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
  3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
  4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
  5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
  6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.

Etymology 2

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).

Noun

drip (plural drips)

  1. A drop of a liquid.
  2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  3. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
  4. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
  5. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

Etymology 3

Acronym.

Noun

drip

  1. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

Results 417 Words with the letters DRIP

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DIAPIR 10
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DOPIER 10
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PAIRED 10
PARDIE 10
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PUTRID 11
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REPAID 10
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SPARID 10
SPIDER 10
SPIRED 10
TORPID 10
TREPID 10
TRIPOD 10
UPGIRD 13
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RID 4
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