Dribble

/ˈdɹɪ.bɫ̩/

Synonyms for "dribble" (156 found)

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Closest matches (32)

Noun(10 words)

dribbling drip drool trickleball handlingballing control crumb drips drivel

ace atom bit condensation condense dab distill distillation distribute dole dot dram driblet drip dripping drippings dripple drivel

Verb(4 words)

carry drip drivel driveling

Strong matches (46)

Verb(5 words)

drivelled drool drooled drop filter

drool drop dwarf expectorate expectoration farthing filter fleck flyspeck foam fragment froth gobbet grain granule groat gurgle hair handful hawk

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iota jot leach leaching leakleak outleakage leaking littlelittle bitlixiviate lixiviation minim minimum minutiae mite

Noun(5 words)

drooling droplet handle leak maneuver

Related words (78)

modicum molecule mote mouth-watering nutshell ounce particle pebble percolate percolation pinch pittance point ptyalism saliva salivate salivation scrimption scruple secrete

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seep seepage seeping sialagogue slabber slaver slobber smidgen smitch speck spew spill spit spittle spoonful spot spurtle sputum sweat sweating thimblefultiny bittittle trickle tricklettrifling amounttrill trivia weep whit

Noun(16 words)

mumble mutter nonsense pittance rill rivulet runnels salivate seeps slavers slobber slobbering squirts trickles tricklingtrickling stream

Verb(12 words)

oozed oozing salivates slabber slaver slavered slobber slobbered slobbers sputter trickle trickled

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6 relation types

More general

24 entries

actuationball handlingball movementbodily processcommunication course feed flow flowing hit leakageliquid movementmotor controloutflow pour

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More specific

14 entries

behind the back dribblecrossovercrossover dribblecrumb driblet drip droplet murmur pittance pullback slaver spittle stammer trickle

Collocations

11 entries

ball handlingcrossover dribbledribble a balldribble down the courtdribble drivedribble into the lanedribble of salivadribble of solventdribble past defenderdribble with left handpullback dribble

Inflections

3 entries

dribbled dribbles dribbling

Derivations

3 entries

dribbler dribbly driblet

similar

1 entries

drip

Sample sentences

18 total sentences available.

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Tom can't dribble a basketball very well.

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Tom doesn't know how to dribble a ball.

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I don't know how to dribble a basketball.

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Ziri picked up a ball and started to dribble it around the court.

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