trickle

norua, valua, valuttaa, tiputella

vuoto A very thin river.

The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.

The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.

The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.

Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.

The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.

Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.