trickles
Barely moves along
Trickles is the verb form of trickle—to flow in a thin, slow stream: Water trickled down the window.
It extends to gradual movement of people or things: Customers trickled in throughout the afternoon.
As a noun, trickles are small flows: a trickle of blood, a trickle of donations.
The word suggests scarcity or slowness compared to a flood or rush.
drips
Falls in drops
drizzles · leaks · percolates · streams · meanders · weeps · runs · flows · filters · bleeds
exudes
Discharges through pores
- secretesReleases from cells
- releasesLets go or publishes
- dischargesReleases or sends forth
sweats · diffuses · expels · produces · emits · yields · gives off · lets out · puts out
- trickling downFlowing slowly in drops
- trickle downSpread gradually to lower levels
- trickled downFlowed in thin stream
- trickle-down economicsTheory that enriching top helps bottom
- trickle down effect
- trickle down economics