Contact and joining
Synonyms for dribble
Synonyms for dribble: drop, filter, drip and trickle. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for dribble
Interchangeable with dribble, one per sense
Audited under dribble's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one dribble carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name dribble as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
two of these come from dribble's own entries in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
let or cause to fall in drops
Dribble oil into the mixture.
The true synonym
drop
Same sentence, swapped: Drop oil into the mixture.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- drivel
- carry
- transfuse
run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
Reports began to dribble in.
The true synonym
filter
Same sentence, swapped: Reports began to filter in.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for dribble in the sentence quoted.
- drivel
- carry
- swirl
Where dribble turns up in the game
dribble is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where dribble is the trap
- filterverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is strain, in the sense "remove by passing through a filter", and dribble is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play dribble
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dribble reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from contact and joining at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dribble carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.