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Drop   /drɑp/  /drɔp/   Listen
Drop

verb
(past & past part. dropped or dropt; pres. part. dropping)
1.
Let fall to the ground.
2.
To fall vertically.
3.
Go down in value.
4.
Fall or descend to a lower place or level.  Synonyms: drop down, sink.
5.
Terminate an association with.
6.
Utter with seeming casualness.  "Drop names"
7.
Stop pursuing or acting.  Synonym: knock off.  "Knock it off!"
8.
Leave or unload.  Synonyms: discharge, drop off, put down, set down, unload.  "Drop off the passengers at the hotel"
9.
Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow.  Synonyms: cut down, fell, strike down.  "Lightning struck down the hikers"
10.
Lose (a game).
11.
Pay out.  Synonyms: expend, spend.
12.
Lower the pitch of (musical notes).  Synonym: flatten.  Antonym: sharpen.
13.
Hang freely.  Synonyms: dangle, swing.  "The light dropped from the ceiling"
14.
Stop associating with.  Synonyms: dismiss, send away, send packing.
15.
Let or cause to fall in drops.  Synonyms: dribble, drip.
16.
Get rid of.  Synonyms: cast, cast off, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off.  "Shed your clothes"
17.
Take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth.
18.
Omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing.
19.
Leave undone or leave out.  Synonyms: leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit.  "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"  Antonym: attend to.
20.
Change from one level to another.
21.
Fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death.
22.
Grow worse.  Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve.  "Conditions in the slums degenerated" , "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"  Antonym: recuperate.
23.
Give birth; used for animals.
noun
1.
A shape that is spherical and small.  Synonyms: bead, pearl.  "Beads of sweat on his forehead"
2.
A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid).  Synonyms: drib, driblet.  "A drop of each sample was analyzed" , "There is not a drop of pity in that man" , "Years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"
3.
A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity.  Synonyms: dip, fall, free fall.  "There was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery" , "A dip in prices" , "When that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
4.
A steep high face of rock.  Synonyms: cliff, drop-off.  "A steep drop"
5.
A predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property).
6.
A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity.  Synonym: fall.
7.
A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery.  Synonyms: drop cloth, drop curtain.
8.
A central depository where things can be left or picked up.
9.
The act of dropping something.



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... billets," said the R.A.M.C. man who looks after infectious diseases. "I've been on the trail of a typhoid epidemic at La Croix Farm, where a company of the Downshires are billeted, and it made me sad. They had their filters with them and they swore they hadn't touched a drop of impure water, and that they treasured our regulations like the book of Leviticus. And yet the trail of that typhoid was all over my spot chart, and the thing was spreading like one of the seven plagues of Egypt. At last I tracked it down to an Army cook; the rotter had had typhoid about five ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan
... Baron Stockmar had long advised her to act as she was prepared to do. She spoke of her intercourse with the Orleans family, on which the French ambassador in London had laid stress as likely to displease the Emperor. She said they were her friends and relations, and that she could not drop them in their adversity, but that politics were never touched upon between her and them. He professed himself perfectly satisfied, and sought in his turn to explain his conduct in the confiscation and forced sale of the ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II • Sarah Tytler
... subject was in the air, he had with laconic firmness announced a toast: "Our federal union; it must be preserved." When two years later the open challenge came from South Carolina, he replied that he would enforce the law, saying with his frontier directness: "If a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hands on engaged in such conduct upon the first tree that I can reach." He made ready to keep his word by preparing ...
— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
... view of a kitchen table with drop leaf, showing the skirting board scribed to the solid side. A table of this type is fastened to the wall with two iron holdfasts which engage the ends of the table. The hinged bracket frame shows the application of the ...
— Woodwork Joints - How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. • William Fairham
... their lower, they bore under the plant, and so eat the root off upwards, leaving the tuft of leaves untouched. In this respect they are serviceable, as they destroy a very troublesome weed; but they deface the waffles in some measure by digging little round holes. It appears, by the dung that they drop upon the turf, that beetles are no inconsiderable part of their food. In June last I procured a litter of four or five young hedge-hogs, which appeared to be about five or six days old; they, I find, like puppies, are ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White


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