drip vs overswell

drip

verb
  • To fall one drop at a time. 

  • To have a superabundance of valuable things. 

  • To rain lightly. 

  • To be wet, to be soaked. 

  • To whine or complain consistently; to grumble. 

  • To leak slowly. 

  • To let fall in drops. 

noun
  • A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person. 

  • Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing. 

  • A drop of a liquid. 

  • A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. 

  • A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing. 

  • An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream. 

  • That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater. 

overswell

verb
  • To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.). 

  • To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large. 

noun
  • An excessive or sudden increase or flood (of something). 

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