What is the meaning of the word "drop"?
Definitions:
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a central depository where things can be left or picked up noun
- Leave the load at the normal drop.
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a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies noun
- Someone should iron the drop.
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a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity noun
- It was a miracle that they survived the drop from that height.
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a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods, such as drugs or stolen property noun
- They gave me the location and time for the drop.
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a shape that is spherical and small noun
- I studied the shapes of lowviscosity drops.
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a small indefinite quantity, especially of a liquid noun
- I added a drop of milk to my tea.
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a steep high face of rock noun
- There is a huge drop over there.
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a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity noun
- There was a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index.
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the act of dropping something noun
- They expected the drop would be successful.
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to cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow verb
- I dropped my opponent in one punch.
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to fall or descend to a lower place or level without impact verb
- We dropped down 100 feet.
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to fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death verb
- Shop until you drop.
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to fall vertically verb
- The bombs are dropping on enemy targets.
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to get rid of, remove verb
- We had to drop them.
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to give birth verb
- The mother dropped a lamb.
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to go down in value verb
- Stock prices dropped.
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to grow worse verb
- The quality is dropping.
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to hang freely verb
- The bucket dropped from the wire.
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to leave or unload verb
- I dropped off the load at the depo.
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to leave undone or leave out verb
- We dropped some tasks to finish the most important things on time.
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to let or cause to fall in drops verb
- I dropped the medicine on the patient's eye.
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to let something fall uncontrolled to the ground, typically impacting the ground verb
- Don't drop the dishes.
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to lose a game verb
- The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13.
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to lower the pitch of musical notes verb
- We should drop this section a whole step.
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to omit a letter or syllable in speaking or writing verb
- New Englanders drop their postvocalic r's.
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to pay out, or spend verb
- We dropped a lot of money last weekend.
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to stop pursuing or acting verb
- You better drop that lawsuit or I am going to have to counter sue.
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to take a drug, especially LSD, by mouth verb
- I dropped acid when I was a teenager.
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to terminate an association with verb
- Drop them from the Republican ticket.
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to utter with seeming casualness verb
- I tried to drop a hint, but they didn't get it.
Synonyms:
- bead
- cliff
- correct
- cut down
- dangle
- decline
- degenerate
- deteriorate
- devolve
- discharge
- drib
- dribble
- driblet
- drip
- drop cloth
- drop curtain
- drop down
- drop-off
- expend
- fall
- farrow
- fell
- flatten
- knock off
- leave out
- miss
- neglect
- omit
- overleap
- overlook
- pearl
- pig
- pretermit
- sink
- slump
- spend
- strike down
- suspend
- swing
- throw
- worsen