trickle
/ˈtrɪk·əl/ v [I]Definition
› (of liquid) to flow slowly and without force: Blood trickled from a cut in his forehead. › To trickle is also to happen gradually and in small numbers: After the hurricane, all the telephones were out, and it was some time before reports of damage began to trickle in.
(Definition of trickle v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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