The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word RIPPLE
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More clues leading to the result RIPPLE
- Wave very gently, upset about that
- Ready to protect place in disturbance
- Place to tuck into excellent ice cream?
- Wind up eating very soft type of ice cream
- Wave of anger very softly breaks
- Flipper frolics after heading off for a wave
- Place found in rickety pier causing undulation
- Anger about very quiet applause barely audible?
- Anger about Pence’s head being seen in contact with Trump’s backside? A little wave, perhaps
- Ice cream can have an effect
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What does RIPPLE mean?
RIPPLE noun- A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
- A sound similar to that of undulating water.
- A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
- A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
- To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
- To propagate like a moving wave.
- To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
- To shape into a series of ripples.
- To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
- To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
- An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
- To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.