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to trickle
01
to flow slowly in small amounts or drops
Intransitive: to trickle somewhere
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
trickle
3rd person singular
trickles
Present participle
trickling
Past simple
trickled
Past participle
trickled
Examples
Water trickled down the moss-covered rocks in the stream.
Trickle
01
a small, slow flow of liquid
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
trickles
Examples
A trickle of water seeped from the leaky faucet.
02
a small, steady flow of people moving slowly or in small numbers
Examples
A trickle of people entered the museum just after it opened.
