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Definition: DROP BY DROP |
DROP BY DROP1. In small successive quantities; in repeated portions. ``Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death.'' --Burke. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Degree | Adverb: by degrees, gradually, inasmuch, pro tanto; however, howsoever; step by step, bit by bit, little by little, inch by inch, drop by drop; a little at a time, by inches, by slow degrees, by degrees, by little and little; in some degree, in some measure; to some extent; di grado in grado. |
Part | Adverb: partly, in part, partially; piecemeal, part by part; by by installments,by snatches, by inches, by driblets; bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop; in detail, in lots. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DROP BY DROP |
| English words defined with "DROP BY DROP": instil, instill, instillation, instillator, instillment, instilment ♦ Strangury. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DROP BY DROP": Instillation, Drug. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Drop by drop will wear away the hardest stone!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Buddha | A jug fills drop by drop. |
Denis Diderot | We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Saint Bartholomews filter drop by drop through the pavements. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "DROP BY DROP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pisaroittain (in drops). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tropfenweise. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cseppenként (in dribs and drabs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ちょび髭 (a topknot, at a glance, bits and pieces, by accident, dot, easy, flickering, fluttering, frizzily, in trickles, intermittently, point, short mustache, simple, small mustache, sparsely, to be dazzled, to flicker, to flit, to litter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちょぼちょぼ (sparsely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bine er bine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opdray ybay opdray picãturã cu picãturã (drop by drops). (various references) droppvis. (various references) damla damla (little by little). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-o-o-p-p-r-r-y" | |
-4 letters: broody, droopy. | |
-5 letters: brood, dobro, droop. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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