drip
Speech parts
1. drip - Noun
2. drip - Verb
Meaning
To let fall in drops.
To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
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Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?
A series of ever-decreasing splashes drip and plop into black water... thus the beginning of the film is reprised.
In Catch-22, the figure of the black market and the ground of war merge into a monster presided over by the syndicate. When war and market merge, all money transactions begin to drip blood.
At Woodlawn I Heard the dead cry: I was lulled by the slamming of iron, A slow drip over stones, Toads brooding wells.
The responsibility of power is like holding an egg. Grasp it too tightly and it will drip through your fingers; hold it too loosely and it will drop and break.
Better a steady drip than a sudden deluge.