Nature

Synonyms for trickle

The synonym for trickle recorded in this bank is dribble, in the sense "to flow slowly in a thin stream". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for trickle

dribbleverb, in the sense "to flow slowly in a thin stream"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and trickle carries one sense so far.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsNature

to flow slowly in a thin stream

Water began to trickle down the rock face after the storm.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

dribble

Same sentence, swapped: Water began to dribble down the rock face after the storm.

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 trickle in the sentence quoted.

gush
flood
surge

Where trickle turns up in the game

trickle is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where trickle is the trap

torrentnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is deluge, in the sense "a fast-moving, violent stream of water", and trickle is on the board beside it.
pourverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is teem, in the sense "of rain, to fall heavily and continuously", and trickle is on the board beside it.

Play trickle

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so trickle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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