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n. - A small wave on the surface of a liquid.

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Usage examples (33)
  • Noun : a ripple of laughter
  • HEMMER: Joe, is there any word rippling through that crowd there where you are about John Edwards?
  • The first process to which the freshly pulled flax is submitted is that of "rippling" or the removal of the seed capsules.
  • Its houses and public were of uneven height, which lent the city a kind of rippling quali well fitted to a metropolis surrounded by water.
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