dripped
- 1Simple past and past participle of drip.
Rain dripped steadily from the edge of the roof for hours.
Melted candle wax had dripped onto the table before anyone noticed.
Note
One spelling does double duty. It is the plain past (the tap dripped all night), and after have it forms the perfect (wax had dripped onto the table). Because drip can also take an object, the participle works in passives too: paint was dripped onto the canvas. The doubled p keeps the short vowel of drip. In the figurative sense of having too much of something, it pairs with with.
The artist dripped paint across the canvas in long, looping lines.
Her gown dripped with pearls and silver thread.
dripped is a form of drip
drip, verb: Of a liquid, to fall in single drops, one after another. Full entry
- Spelling
- drip → dripped: double the p, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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