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# dripping

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

«dripping» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Dripping means falling in small drops, or letting drops fall: a dripping tap. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#m1)
2. Dripping wet means extremely wet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#m2)
3. Dripping with something means covered in a lot of it. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#m4)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x1)
- I came home dripping wet from the rain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x2)
- Ice cream was dripping down my hand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x3)
- Water was dripping from the roof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x4)
- He was dripping with sweat after the race. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x5)
- A dripping tap can waste lots of water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/#x6)
- Grandma cooked potatoes in beef dripping. [tree →](https://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://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).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «dripping» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dripping/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dripping» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dripping.html) on Mova free.