dripped

verb

past tense of drip
as in flowed
to fall or let fall in or as if in drops water from the leaky roof was dripping all over the floor the cracked bottle dripped wine

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Recent Examples of dripped Despite the flow of cold air from the gap in the doorjamb, every first-floor window dripped with condensation. — Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026 Present subtext dripped from his words of the past, as the city of Denver hopes Payton has found a next great one, two decades later. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 July 2026 After pounding his drive down the final fairway, Fox hit his approach to just inside 12 feet and then dripped his birdie putt into the edge of the cup to win the 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. — Dan Zaksheske, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026 Blood dripped from his head; his father and daughter had various injuries. — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026 During a session, the molecule is mixed with saline and dripped into a vein over one to four hours. — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2026 The dress’s mermaid-esque skirt dripped in feathers all the way down. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 9 June 2026 Sections lower in the nozzle that were not cooled began to overheat and sag while molten plastic dripped from the engine outlet. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026 Also featured on the summer menu will be a new Unicorn Cake Pop, featuring vanilla cake mixed with confetti sprinkles, dripped in white chocolate icing and decorated with a unicorn face. — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 11 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dripped
  1. flowed
  2. poured
  3. sprinkled
  4. dropped
  5. trickled
  6. distilled
Verb
  • Both Kpler and Windward showed around five ships – total – exited the Strait of Hormuz on the day Wright said 20 million barrels flowed out of the Arab gulf region.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
  • In Nebraska, millions of federal grant dollars have flowed to a statewide health information exchange nonprofit that has cooperated with the effort.
    — Jennifer D. Oliva, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of flowed
Verb
  • Dreaming up ‘The Curse of a Forsaken Heart’ was the first time my creative voice poured back in.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The victim was left naked on a floor with head injuries and broken ribs, and one attacker poured floor cleaner onto his open wounds.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of poured
Verb
  • Elarms-Orr has been sprinkled into first-team time throughout open practices.
    — Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Warren Buffett went long in his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders—often 10,000-plus words, deep on the year’s lessons and the company’s results, sprinkled with folksy wisdom.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of sprinkled
Verb
  • Gas prices dropped again in July — just in time for those summer road trips.
    — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Two of the women were arrested that day, but the charges were later dropped.
    — Marissa Armas, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of dropped
Verb
  • Those wholesale prices have trickled down to homeowners, with electricity prices outpacing inflation since the end of the pandemic (see chart).
    — Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
  • These forever chemicals, also known as PFAS or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, have leached from everything from firefighting foam to waterproof clothing to nonstick cookware and trickled into the aquifer — the source of our drinking water.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of trickled
Verb
  • Almost everything on the menu grows, swims, or gets distilled within a few kilometers of the kitchen.
    — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2026
  • In this case, the whiskey was distilled from January to June of 2015, and aged for a full 11 years in new American oak barrels.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of distilled

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