(drips, dripping, dripped)
1.
When liquid drips somewhere, or you drip it somewhere, it falls in individual small drops.
Sit your child forward and let the blood drip into a tissue or on to the floor...
Amid the trees the sea mist was dripping...
The children kept dripping Coke on the carpets.
VERB: V prep/adv, V, V n prep/adv
2.
When something drips, drops of liquid fall from it.
A tap in the kitchen was dripping...
Lou was dripping with perspiration...
He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor.
VERB: V, V with n, V n
3.
A drip is a small individual drop of a liquid.
Drips of water rolled down the trousers of his uniform.
N-COUNT
4.
A drip is a piece of medical equipment by which a liquid is slowly passed through a tube into a patient's blood.
I had a bad attack of pneumonia and spent two days in hospital on a drip.
N-COUNT
5.
If you say that something is dripping with a particular thing, you mean that it contains a lot of that thing. (LITERARY)
They were dazed by window displays dripping with diamonds and furs...
VERB: usu cont, V with n
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