trickle

A small, slow flow of liquid, or the gentle sound it makes.

• Water escaped in a thin trickle.
• A trickle of blood ran from his finger.
• I could hear the trickle from the leaking tap.

How to use it: a trickle of something (A trickle of water ran down the wall.)

Common phrases: trickle of something, a slow trickle, steady trickle

A stream or river that has very little water flowing through it.

• The stream is only a trickle now.
• By August, the river had become a muddy trickle.
• Rain turned the trickle into a flowing stream again.

Similar words: tiny stream

Common phrases: a mere trickle, reduced to a trickle

To pour liquid slowly in a thin stream or a series of drops.

• Trickle some water onto the soil.
• She trickled oil over the warm bread.
• He carefully trickled the medicine into the cup.

How to use it: trickle something over something (Trickle the sauce over the fish.); trickle something into something (Trickle the oil into the bowl.)

Similar words: drizzle, drip

Common phrases: trickle something over, trickle something into, trickle something onto