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Meaning of Trickle | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈtɹɪkəl

Definitions

  1. A very thin river.
  2. A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.

Equivalents

العربية الوشل
Български капене капя
Bosanski sil
Català rajar regalimar
Čeština čůrek kanout
Gaeilge sil silín
Galego pingar
Hrvatski sil
Bahasa Indonesia tetesan
Kurdî curek puro sîl şil
Latina stillare
Te Reo Māori paheke toto
Nederlands druppelen
Slovenčina jarok
Српски sil
Svenska droppande rännil

Examples

“The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.”
“The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.”
“The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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