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# dripping

«dripping» in Mova's school dictionary: **falling in small drops, or letting drops fall: a dripping…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (drip, drips, dripped, dripping); adjective (dripping); noun (dripping — fat from meat, UK)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Dripping means falling in small drops, or letting drops fall: a dripping tap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#m1)

2) Dripping wet means extremely wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#m2)

3) Dripping with something means covered in a lot of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#m3)

4) In British English, dripping is the fat that comes out of meat when it is roasted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, water dripping shows liquids falling under gravity; pupils measure drips from a tap and learn about saving water. In everyday life, you come in dripping wet after rain. Phrases: dripping wet, a dripping tap, dripping with sweat.

### examples

- The tap is dripping; please turn it off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x1)
- I came home dripping wet from the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x2)
- Ice cream was dripping down my hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x3)
- Water was dripping from the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x4)
- He was dripping with sweat after the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x5)
- A dripping tap can waste lots of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x6)
- Grandma cooked potatoes in beef dripping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x7)
- Dripping with his recent plunge he sat with chattering teeth within his unfired wigwam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x8)

### note

It is the -ing form of drip: double the p (drip, dripping, dripped). In maths, if a tap drips 10 drops a minute, it drips 600 drops in an hour (10 × 60).

### In the corpora

- [The Rat grips Toad by the scruff of the neck and hauls him up into his hall, dripping with mud and weed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/0/)
- [A dripping tap wastes a lot of water over days, so tell a grown-up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/8/)
- [Stalactites hang from cave roofs and stalagmites grow up from the floor, built from dripping water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/14/)
- [Picture a bath with the hot tap dripping: one splash can still feel cold, but the water slowly gets warmer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/2/)
- [A dripping tap can waste thousands of litres of water in a year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/89-saving-water-and-energy/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dripping» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.