Meanings (ES + gloss)
riachuelo
A very thin river.
The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
chiringuito • chorreo • goteo • instilación
A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.
The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.
The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
instilar
to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
chorrear • gotear • instilarse
to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.