Definitions for dripping

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IPA: /ˈdrɪp ɪŋ/

Dripping is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in dripping (dgiinppr).

Definitions for dripping

noun

1. the act of something that drips.
2. Often, drippings. the liquid that drips. fat and juices exuded from meat in cooking, used for basting, for making gravy, or as a cooking fat.
3. an act of dripping.
4. liquid that drips.
5. the sound made by falling drops:
6. Slang. an unattractive, boring, or colorless person.
7. (in house painting) the accumulation of solidified drops of paint at the bottom of a painted surface.
8. Architecture, Building Trades. any device, as a molding, for shedding rain water to keep it from running down a wall, falling onto the sill of an opening, etc.
9. a pipe for draining off condensed steam from a radiator, heat exchanger, etc.
10. Medicine/Medical. intravenous drip.
11. Slang. maudlin sentimentality.

verb (used with object)

1. to let fall in drops.

verb (used without object)

1. to let drops fall; shed drops:
2. to fall in drops, as a liquid.

Origin of dripping

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at drip, -ing¹

Examples for dripping

By then, dripping with fevered sweat, she would have been inarguably contagious.

If you baste it with any thing else, or with its own dripping, the skin will not be crisp.

Storey said Wright often returned applications “dripping in red pen.”

It’s arguably the best film of the ‘90s—a postmodern pop culture smorgasbord awash in nihilism and dripping with retro cool.

Yeonmi gathered clothes from the trash, while her parents collected water from a dripping tap.

Skim the lard or dripping always before you put in the fish.

To baste it with its own dripping will make the skin tough and hard.

It was relieving to hurry across the dripping grass toward the barn.

One industry executive complained that Wright returned unapproved applications “dripping in red pen.”

The dripping of water reached the ear; the smell of dampness the nostrils.