MEANING
1. To let saliva flow or drip from the mouth.
2. To show eager or excessive desire for something.
3. Saliva flowing or dripping from the mouth.
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Words that belong together
- baby drools
- drool onto a cloth
On the page
The baby drooled onto the cloth.
The dog began to drool.
The nurse asked when he had started to drool.
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Word forms
- Base
- drool
- Past tense
- drooled
- Past participle
- drooled
- Present participle
- drooling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- drool
- Present continuous
- am/is/are drooling
- Present perfect
- have/has drooled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been drooling
- Past
- drooled
- Past continuous
- was/were drooling
- Past perfect
- had drooled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been drooling
- Future
- will drool
- Future continuous
- will be drooling
- Future perfect
- will have drooled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been drooling
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: drool; drools; drooled; drooled; drooling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: drools.
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