trickled
trickled is the simple past and past participle of trickle.
Meaning of trickle
Verb
trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)
- to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- To move or roll slowly.
- Some [marbles] were found in a child's grave at Nagada, Egypt […] together with a set of ninepins and three rectangular bricks which could have formed an arch through which to trickle the balls.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 32
Phrases with trickled
Questions about trickled
- What is trickled the simple past and past participle of?
- Trickled is the simple past and past participle of trickle.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: trickled (page history and authors); trickle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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