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ripple verb3. L17.
[Origin unkn.]
verb intrans. Have or show a lightly ruffled, crinkled, or waved surface; be covered with ripples; form ripples, undulate lightly. L17.
A. B. Edwards The young barley rippling for miles in the sun. V. Woolf The sea was rippling faintly,..lines of green and blue..beginning to stripe it.
b. Flow or progress in ripples. M18.
Tennyson The rivulet..Ripples on in light and shadow.
c. Pass quickly through each of a series in turn. M20.
P. L. Fermor Applause rippled through the gathered crowd.
verb trans. Cause to ripple; form ripples in or on; mark (as) with ripples; cause to undulate lightly. L18.
T. S. Eliot The brisk swell Rippled both shores. F. Muir Photographed in the nude, rippling his muscles.
b. Produce or utter with a rising and falling sound. Also foll. by out. L19.
A. E. W. Mason The girl..rippled out a laugh of gladness.
rippling noun (a) the action of the verb; an instance of this; (b) US = RIPPLE noun3 1; (c) the sound of water in motion: M17.
ripplingly adverb in a rippling manner M19.