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    trickle
    /ˈtrɪkl/

    verb

    • 1. (of a liquid) flow in a small stream: "a solitary tear trickled down her cheek"
    • 2. come, go, or appear slowly or gradually: "the first members of the congregation began to trickle in"

    noun

    • 1. a small flow of liquid: "a trickle of blood"

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  2. a very small number of people or things arriving or leaving somewhere: We usually only get a trickle of customers in the mornings. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Words meaning small pieces and amounts. by a nose idiom. clipping. crumb. dab of something. dash. dollop. grain. ort. paring. peewee. pinch. potsherd. skinny. spark. tad.

  3. The meaning of TRICKLE is to issue or fall in drops. How to use trickle in a sentence.

  4. Trickle definition: to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream. See examples of TRICKLE used in a sentence.

  5. TRICKLE meaning: 1. If liquid trickles somewhere, it flows slowly and without force in a thin line: 2. to arrive or…. Learn more.

  6. When people or things trickle in a particular direction, they move there slowly in small groups or amounts, rather than all together.

  7. To trickle is to weakly flow out of something, like a faucet. A trickle is like a drip. There are a lot of ways water can flow, but one type of slow dripping is called trickling.

  8. 1. To flow or fall in drops or in a thin stream. 2. To move or proceed slowly or bit by bit: The audience trickled in. v.tr. To cause to trickle. n. 1. The act or condition of trickling. 2. A slow, small, or irregular quantity that moves, proceeds, or occurs intermittently.