--- title: D — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 55 description: The 1197 words of the English dictionary under D, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/55/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / D # D — The English dictionary · page 55 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* soaked all through with water or another liquid.[↗](../../drenched/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We got drenched in the sudden rain.[↗](../../drenched/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog was drenched after its swim.[↗](../../drenched/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The sailor was drenched by the waves.[↗](../../drenched/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **drenching** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* a heavy soaking with water; very wet.[↗](../../drenching/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The drenching rain flooded the road.[↗](../../drenching/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · After his drenching he sat by the fire to get warm.[↗](../../drenching/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We walked home in the drenching storm.[↗](../../drenching/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **dress** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A piece of clothing that covers the body from the shoulders down to the legs, in one piece, often worn by girls and women.[↗](../../dress/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To put clothes on yourself or someone else: get dressed.[↗](../../dress/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To wear clothes of a certain kind: dress smartly, dress up.[↗](../../dress/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Clothes of a certain style, uncountable: school dress, fancy dress.[↗](../../dress/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To dress a wound is to clean it and cover it with a bandage.[↗](../../dress/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* To dress food is to add a sauce: dress a salad.[↗](../../dress/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 7:* The outward appearance or form in which a book or work is presented.[↗](../../dress/#m7 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Get dressed — we're leaving in ten minutes\![↗](../../dress/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She wore a blue dress to the party.[↗](../../dress/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We dressed up as pirates for the fancy dress party.[↗](../../dress/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dress warmly; it's snowing.[↗](../../dress/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurse dressed the cut with a clean bandage.[↗](../../dress/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum dressed the salad with olive oil.[↗](../../dress/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The dress rehearsal is the day before the play.[↗](../../dress/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby can't dress himself yet.[↗](../../dress/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The title agreed with the dress.[↗](../../dress/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.[↗](../../dress/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.2.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dress/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hastened to dress it.[↗](../../dress/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.18.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dress/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.[↗](../../dress/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.28.39, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dress/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.'[↗](../../dress/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.13.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dress/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees; (Prophets AMO.7.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dress/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal: 'Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under.'[↗](../../dress/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.18.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dress/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **dresseth** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* «dresseth» means «dresses», a form of «dress».[↗](../../dresseth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* A piece of clothing that covers the body from the shoulders down to the legs, in one piece, often worn by girls and women.[↗](../../dresseth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices; every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it.[↗](../../dresseth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.30.7, JPS 1917) **dressing** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sauce, usually of oil, vinegar or cream, poured over salad: «salad dressing».[↗](../../dressing/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A covering such as a pad or bandage put on a wound to protect it.[↗](../../dressing/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (US) Stuffing for a turkey or chicken.[↗](../../dressing/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (verb) Putting clothes on.[↗](../../dressing/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* Getting a salad, a wound, or a shop window ready: «window dressing».[↗](../../dressing/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* A dressing-gown is a loose robe worn over pyjamas or nightclothes.[↗](../../dressing/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Pour the dressing over the salad.[↗](../../dressing/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurse put a clean dressing on the cut.[↗](../../dressing/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · (US) We had turkey with dressing at Thanksgiving.[↗](../../dressing/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Hurry up, you're still dressing\![↗](../../dressing/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Put your dressing gown on, it's cold.[↗](../../dressing/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The actors changed in the dressing room.[↗](../../dressing/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The coach gave the team a real dressing-down after they lost.[↗](../../dressing/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The General was walking about in his dressing-gown.[↗](../../dressing/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **dressmaker** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* a person whose job is to make dresses and other clothes for people.[↗](../../dressmaker/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The dressmaker sewed a blue dress for the princess.[↗](../../dressmaker/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My aunt is a dressmaker in town.[↗](../../dressmaker/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The dressmaker measured the girl for her new frock.[↗](../../dressmaker/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **drey** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A drey is the nest of a squirrel, built high in a tree from twigs, leaves and moss.[↗](../../drey/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* It is round like a ball, with a soft lining inside where the squirrel sleeps and keeps its babies warm.[↗](../../drey/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We spotted a drey high up in the oak tree.[↗](../../drey/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Grey squirrels build their dreys from twigs and leaves.[↗](../../drey/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In winter the drey is easy to see because the branches are bare.[↗](../../drey/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Baby squirrels are born in the drey.[↗](../../drey/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A drey looks like a messy ball of sticks.[↗](../../drey/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The squirrel ran up the trunk and disappeared into its drey.[↗](../../drey/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class drew a map of all the dreys in the park.[↗](../../drey/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A bird's nest is open on top, but a drey usually has a roof.[↗](../../drey/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **dribble** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To let liquid, especially spit, run slowly out of your mouth: babies dribble.[↗](../../dribble/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (of liquid) To fall or flow slowly in drops or a thin stream.[↗](../../dribble/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (sport) To move a ball along by giving it many small kicks (football) or bounces (basketball) while running.[↗](../../dribble/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (noun) A small, thin stream of liquid, or spit coming from the mouth.[↗](../../dribble/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The baby dribbled all over his bib.[↗](../../dribble/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She dribbled the ball past three defenders.[↗](../../dribble/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Water dribbled from the leaky tap.[↗](../../dribble/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The basketball player dribbled to the hoop.[↗](../../dribble/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A dribble of honey ran down the jar.[↗](../../dribble/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog dribbled when it smelled the sausages.[↗](../../dribble/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We practised dribbling round the cones in PE.[↗](../../dribble/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **dried** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Made dry by taking away water or wetness.[↗](../../dried/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (of food) With the water taken out so it keeps a long time, like dried fruit or dried peas.[↗](../../dried/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (dried up) No longer having water, as a river; or no longer having ideas or words.[↗](../../dried/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Made to vanish or come to an end, as tears are dried up.[↗](../../dried/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I dried my hands on the towel.[↗](../../dried/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The puddles dried up in the sun.[↗](../../dried/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Raisins are dried grapes.[↗](../../dried/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We dried flowers by pressing them in a book.[↗](../../dried/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The washing dried quickly in the wind.[↗](../../dried/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · When the salt water dried, salt crystals were left.[↗](../../dried/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The river dried up in the long hot summer.[↗](../../dried/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He wiped his tears and dried his eyes.[↗](../../dried/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · A new desire dried them quickly away.[↗](../../dried/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all; we have nought save this manna to look to.' — (Torah NUM.11.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dried/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.[↗](../../dried/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.8.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dried/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · he shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.[↗](../../dried/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.6.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dried/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.[↗](../../dried/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.69.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dried/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.[↗](../../dried/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.17.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dried/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.[↗](../../dried/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOL.1.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dried/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **drier** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Drier is the comparative of dry: having less water or wetness than something else.[↗](../../drier/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A drier (often spelled dryer) is a machine that dries things, like a clothes dryer or a hair dryer.[↗](../../drier/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The desert is drier than the jungle.[↗](../../drier/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My towel is drier than yours.[↗](../../drier/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · This summer was drier than last summer.[↗](../../drier/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Put the wet clothes in the dryer.[↗](../../drier/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Today is drier, so we can play outside.[↗](../../drier/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Which cloth is drier after five minutes in the sun?[↗](../../drier/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **drift** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To drift means to be carried slowly along by water or air, without control.[↗](../../drift/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To drift means to move or change slowly without a plan: drift off to sleep, drift apart.[↗](../../drift/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A drift is a big pile of snow or sand blown by the wind.[↗](../../drift/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* The drift of what someone says is its general meaning.[↗](../../drift/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The boat drifted down the river.[↗](../../drift/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Leaves drifted slowly to the ground.[↗](../../drift/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I drifted off to sleep during the film.[↗](../../drift/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The snow made huge drifts by the door.[↗](../../drift/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't let your inflatable drift out to sea.[↗](../../drift/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The continents drift very slowly.[↗](../../drift/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Do you get my drift?[↗](../../drift/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The boat drifted farther and farther away.[↗](../../drift/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **driftwood** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* pieces of wood that the sea or a river has carried and left on the shore.[↗](../../driftwood/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We found driftwood along the shore.[↗](../../driftwood/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The children built a fire with driftwood.[↗](../../driftwood/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The waves left driftwood on the sand.[↗](../../driftwood/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **drill** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A tool or machine for making holes in wood, metal, stone or teeth.[↗](../../drill/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A practice of what to do in an emergency.[↗](../../drill/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "a fire drill".[↗](../../drill/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Repeated practice to learn something well.[↗](../../drill/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "a spelling drill".[↗](../../drill/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* As a verb, to make a hole with a drill, or to train by repeating.[↗](../../drill/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We had a fire drill at school today.[↗](../../drill/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad used a drill to put up the shelf.[↗](../../drill/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The dentist drilled out the hole in my tooth.[↗](../../drill/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The coach made us do passing drills.[↗](../../drill/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In an earthquake drill we drop, cover and hold on.[↗](../../drill/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Workers drilled deep to find water.[↗](../../drill/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · You know the drill: shoes off at the door.[↗](../../drill/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **drily** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* In a funny way that seems serious, with a straight face (dry humour).[↗](../../drily/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In a dry way, without water or wetness (rare).[↗](../../drily/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «Oh, brilliant,» said Dad drily, as the rain came down on our picnic.[↗](../../drily/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «Lovely weather for ducks,» Grandpa remarked drily.[↗](../../drily/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She smiled drily at his excuse.[↗](../../drily/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · «I'm sure the homework ate itself,» the teacher said drily.[↗](../../drily/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He answered drily, without a smile.[↗](../../drily/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The comedian spoke drily, which made it even funnier.[↗](../../drily/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · ‘Top Off,’ said the Cat drily.[↗](../../drily/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **drink** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To drink is to take water, milk, juice or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it.[↗](../../drink/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A drink is something you drink, or an amount of it.[↗](../../drink/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* For grown-ups, «to drink» can mean to drink alcohol.[↗](../../drink/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She drinks 2 glasses of milk a day.[↗](../../drink/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He drank 300 ml of juice.[↗](../../drink/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Each drink costs $2.[↗](../../drink/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How much water is left after he drinks 1 liter?[↗](../../drink/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Drink water after running.[↗](../../drink/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Can I have a drink, please?[↗](../../drink/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Never drink anything from an unknown bottle.[↗](../../drink/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Plants drink water through their roots.[↗](../../drink/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Quick, give me something to drink.[↗](../../drink/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And they made their father drink wine that night.[↗](../../drink/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.19.33, JPS 1917)[↗](../../drink/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And they made their father drink wine that night also.[↗](../../drink/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.19.35, JPS 1917)[↗](../../drink/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.[↗](../../drink/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.24.46, JPS 1917)[↗](../../drink/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · So Ahab went up to eat and to drink.[↗](../../drink/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.18.42, JPS 1917)[↗](../../drink/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.[↗](../../drink/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.5.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../drink/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.[↗](../../drink/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.19.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../drink/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **drinkable** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Drinkable water or drink is safe to drink.[↗](../../drinkable/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Drinkable can also mean pleasant enough to drink, not too hot, sour or strong.[↗](../../drinkable/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Is this tap water drinkable?[↗](../../drinkable/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Sea water is not drinkable because it is too salty.[↗](../../drinkable/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · They boiled the stream water to make it drinkable.[↗](../../drinkable/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Only a small part of the Earth's water is drinkable.[↗](../../drinkable/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The tea is drinkable now that it has cooled down.[↗](../../drinkable/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story they found a spring of cold, drinkable water.[↗](../../drinkable/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The sign said «Water not drinkable» above the tap.[↗](../../drinkable/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **drinker** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A person who drinks something, here someone who drinks a lot of wine.[↗](../../drinker/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.[↗](../../drinker/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOL.1.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../drinker/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **drinketh** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* «drinketh» means «drinks», a form of «drink».[↗](../../drinketh/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* To drink is to take water, milk, juice or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it.[↗](../../drinketh/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'[↗](../../drinketh/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.44.5, JPS 1917) · but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water as the rain of heaven cometh down;[↗](../../drinketh/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.11.11, JPS 1917) **drip** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To drip means to fall in small drops, or to let drops fall.[↗](../../drip/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A dripping tap lets out water drop by drop.[↗](../../drip/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A drip is one drop, or the sound of drops.[↗](../../drip/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A drip in a hospital puts liquid slowly into a patient's body.[↗](../../drip/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The tap drips 5 drops a second.[↗](../../drip/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Water drips into a bucket at 2 liters an hour.[↗](../../drip/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · How much water drips out in a day?[↗](../../drip/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · 30 ml dripped from the bottle.[↗](../../drip/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Fix the dripping tap to save water.[↗](../../drip/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Rain dripped from the roof.[↗](../../drip/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The ice cream was dripping down my hand.[↗](../../drip/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurse checked the patient's drip.[↗](../../drip/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The water dripped from the straw mat which she had bound round her body, and from her gown.[↗](../../drip/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · All hands shall be slack, and all knees shall drip with water.[↗](../../drip/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.7.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../drip/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **dripping** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Dripping means falling in small drops, or letting drops fall: a dripping tap.[↗](../../dripping/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Dripping wet means extremely wet.[↗](../../dripping/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Dripping with something means covered in a lot of it.[↗](../../dripping/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* In British English, dripping is the fat that comes out of meat when it is roasted.[↗](../../dripping/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The tap is dripping; please turn it off.[↗](../../dripping/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I came home dripping wet from the rain.[↗](../../dripping/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ice cream was dripping down my hand.[↗](../../dripping/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Water was dripping from the roof.[↗](../../dripping/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He was dripping with sweat after the race.[↗](../../dripping/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A dripping tap can waste lots of water.[↗](../../dripping/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma cooked potatoes in beef dripping.[↗](../../dripping/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Dripping with his recent plunge he sat with chattering teeth within his unfired wigwam.[↗](../../dripping/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) … 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