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Noun

trickle ‎(plural trickles)

1. A very thin river.

   The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.

2. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.

   The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

   • James Bryce

     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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Verb

trickle ‎(third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)

Water is trickling down this boy's face.

1. (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously

   The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.

2. (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously

   Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.

   The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.

3. (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.
   • 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:

     Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.

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