verb
- Let fall to the ground.
- usage: "Don't drop the dishes"
- synonyms: drop
- To fall vertically.
- usage: "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"
- synonyms: drop
- Go down in value.
- usage: "Stock prices dropped"
- synonyms: drop
- Fall or descend to a lower place or level.
- usage: "He sank to his knees"
- Terminate an association with.
- usage: "drop him from the Republican ticket"
- synonyms: drop
- Utter with seeming casualness.
- usage: "drop a hint"; drop names"
- synonyms: drop
- Stop pursuing or acting.
- usage: "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off"
- Leave or unload.
- usage: "unload the cargo"; "drop off the passengers at the hotel"
- Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow.
- usage: "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"
- synonyms: fell, drop, strike down, cut down
- Lose (a game. )
- usage: "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13"
- synonyms: drop
- Pay out.
- usage: "spend money"
- Lower the pitch of (musical notes.
- Hang freely.
- usage: "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling"
- Stop associating with.
- usage: "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"
- synonyms: dismiss, send packing, send away, drop
- Let or cause to fall in drops.
- usage: "dribble oil into the mixture"
- Get rid of.
- usage: "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
- Take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth.
- usage: "She dropped acid when she was a teenager"
- synonyms: drop
- Omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing.
- usage: " New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's"
- synonyms: drop
- Leave undone or leave out.
- usage: "How could I miss that typo"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
- Change from one level to another.
- usage: "She dropped into army jargon"
- synonyms: drop
- Fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death.
- usage: "shop til you drop"
- synonyms: drop
- Grow worse.
- usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
- synonyms: devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
- Give birth; used for animals.
- usage: "The cow dropped her calf this morning"
- synonyms: drop
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