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/rˈɪpəlɪŋ/ /rˈɪplɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Ripple v. t.

To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

Hence, to scratch or tear.

Ripple v. t. To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.

Ripple v. i. (past & past part. rippled; pres. part. rippling)

To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.

To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

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Etymology of 'Rippling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rippling" Quotes from Famous Books

... laughed, her laughter was just like the rippling of silvery music and of the most catching, contagious nature. She generally only smiled, at even the most humorous incidents; and her smile was the sweetest I ever saw in anyone. It lit up her whole face with merriment, giving the grey eyes the most bewitching expression, ...

— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson

... Winter bent over, keen to discern the gray-backed fish which must be lurking in those clear depths and rippling shallows. ...

— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy

... the bar of San Francisco Bay. The captain said, if he reached it at night, he expected to wait until daylight to enter; but I knew that his ambitious spirit would never let him, if it were possible to get over. About three o'clock in the morning, I heard a new sound in the water, like the rippling of billows, as if it were shallow. I hastened upon deck, and found that we were apparently on the bar. The captain and the mate differed about the sounding. Immediately after, I heard the captain tell a man to run down and see what time it was; and, upon learning the hour, ...

— Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California • Caroline C. Leighton

... during examination week, how frightened she had been, and how sleepy she was now,—"not just now of course"—and how she had been all ready to go home when the spill came. And Miss Ferris nodded knowingly at Mary and laughed her little rippling laugh. ...

— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton

... broad-browed, stately, though thick-waisted woman, bending slightly forward and with both arms broken off, was decently robed from the hips downward. The others were not robed at all. Theron stared at them with the erratic, rippling jangle of the waltz in his ears, and felt that he possessed a new and disturbing conception of what female emancipation meant in these later days. Roving along the wall, his glance rested again upon the largest of the ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

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