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say it: TRIK-uhl
trickle is a noun and verb meaning "flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid". It carries 2 recorded senses.
flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
“there's a drip through the roof”
run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
“water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose”
“reports began to dribble in”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trickle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.