adrip

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/əˈdɹɪp/

adjective

Dripping.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

adjectiveadrip (not comparable)
  1. not comparablepredicativeDripping.

    There was a gurgling and spurting sound as of dammed water adrip.

    1896, Fiona Macleod, The Washer of the Ford, Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes, page 273
    2 more examples

    […] the air [was] sweet with the sap adrip from the orchards lately pruned […]

    1913, Mary Austin, The Lovely Lady, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, Part 1, p. 23

    Out in the trading post he could hear them playing seven-up, could smell the brandy adrip from empty horns at the players’ elbows.

    1985, Conrad Richter, “As It Was in the Beginning”, in The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, page 153
  2. not comparablepredicativeCovered (with a liquid) to the point that it drips; having a liquid dripping off it.

    Melting snow gurgled in drainspouts and gutters, all Copenhagen was adrip.

    1948, Edgar Maass, The Queen’s Physician, New York: Scribner, Book 3, Chapter 8
    3 more examples

    The dust in the road was laid; trees were adrip with moisture; birds sat silent in their coverts; the morning light was wan and ghastly […]

    1893, Ambrose Bierce, “The Death of Halpin Frayser”, in Can Such Things Be?, New York: Cassell, page 17

    And she with Goban’s wine adrip, No more remembering what had been, Stared at the gods with laughing lip.

    1913, William Butler Yeats, “The Grey Rock”, in Responsibilities and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 9

    He was naked to the waist, his hairy breast and arms to the armpits clotted and adrip with blood, and in his hands two bloody daggers.

    1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 250, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: dripping

  3. figurativelynot comparablepredicativeCovered or filled (with something) as if to the point of dripping.

    the humanitarian, all adrip with brotherhood and profoundly convinced of the loveliness of his own soul

    1919, Irving Babbitt, chapter 10, in Rousseau and Romanticism, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 368
    2 more examples

    […] he [Andrew Marvell] was witty with the wittiest; was caustic, humorous; his pages adrip with classicisms;

    1890, Donald G. Mitchell, chapter 5, in English Lands, Letters and Kings: From Elizabeth to Anne, New York: Scribner, pages 190–191

    All the big hotels here are adrip with neon, with flashing signs, nameboards that light up one letter at a time, zipping dotted arrows […]

    1985, Peter Popham, chapter 5, in Tokyo: The City at the End of the World, Tokyo: Kodansha International, page 132

    Synonyms: dripping

  4. USnot comparablepredicativeslangIntoxicated with alcohol.

    Synonyms: drunk

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveCovered (with a liquid) to the point that it drips; having a liquid dripping off it.

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adjectiveCovered or filled (with something) as if to the point of dripping.

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adjectiveIntoxicated with alcohol.

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