trickling

Variant of trickle

intransitive verb trickled, trickling

  1. to flow slowly in a thin stream or fall in drops
  2. to move, come, go, etc. little by little: the crowd trickled away

Origin: ME triklen < ?

transitive verb

to cause to trickle

noun

  1. the act of trickling
  2. a slow, small flow
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