drop
Meaning of drop
verb
- let or make (something) fall vertically.
the fire was caused by someone dropping a lighted cigarette
they dropped bombs on Caen during the raid
- fall vertically.
the spoon dropped with a clatter from her hand
- make or become lower, weaker, or less.
he dropped his voice as she came into the room
pre-tax profits dropped by 37 per cent
tourism has dropped off in the last few years
- abandon or discontinue (a course of action or study).
the charges against him were dropped last year
- set down or unload (a passenger or goods), especially on the way to somewhere else.
his mum dropped him outside and drove off to work
he dropped the load off at a dealer's
- (in sport) fail to win (a point or a match).
the club have yet to drop a point in the Second Division
- be forced to play (a relatively high card) as a loser under an opponent's higher card, because it is the only card in its suit held in the hand.
East drops the 10 on the second round
- a small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface.
the first drops of rain splashed on the ground
- an instance of falling or dropping.
they left within five minutes of the drop of the curtain
- a delivery.
I got to the depot and made the drop
- a small, round sweet or lozenge.
a chocolate drop
- an earring that hangs down from the earlobe.
simple amethyst and diamond drops
- a section of theatrical scenery lowered from the flies; a drop cloth or drop curtain.
- a trapdoor on a gallows, the opening of which causes the prisoner to fall and thus be hanged.
warders, standing on planks, invariably flanked the prisoners on the drop
Old English dropa (noun), droppian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German Tropfen ‘a drop’, tropfen ‘to drip’, also to drip and droop.
Information about drop
- The plural form of drop is: drops.
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CatalanHyphenation of drop
drop
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- drop is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
drop synonyms
Meaning drib:
Meaning bead:
Meaning dip:
Meaning cliff:
Meaning fall:
Meaning sink:
Meaning drop off:
Meaning fell:
Meaning spend:
Meaning flatten:
Meaning dangle:
Meaning dismiss:
Meaning dribble:
Meaning shed:
Meaning neglect:
neglect, pretermit, omit, miss, overlook, overleap
Meaning devolve:
devolve, deteriorate, degenerate
Meaning allow or enable to escape from confinement; set free:
Meaning release (someone) from one's grasp:
Meaning voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up:
Meaning move to or place in a particular position:
Meaning put in a particular position:
Meaning cease work or movement in order to relax, sleep, or recover strength:
Meaning put or set down (something or someone) in a specific place:
Meaning (of the sun, moon, or another celestial body) appear to move towards and below the earth's horizon as the earth rotates:
Meaning put (something) down gently or carefully:
Meaning abandon (a spouse or partner):
Meaning resolve or reach an agreement about (an argument or problem):
Meaning push (someone or something) roughly:
Meaning a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree:
Meaning put or arrange (someone or something) in a particular place or way:
Meaning put in or assign to a specified place for a particular purpose, especially a military one:
Meaning put or move (something) somewhere quickly:
Meaning set down heavily or carelessly:
Meaning (of a liquid) flow in a small stream:
Meaning rain lightly:
Meaning (of a liquid, gas, or electricity) move steadily and continuously in a current or stream:
Meaning move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time:
Meaning fall or cause to fall with a plop:
Meaning (of a container or covering) accidentally lose or admit contents, especially liquid or gas, through a hole or crack:
Meaning move or fall downwards:
Meaning fall suddenly and uncontrollably:
Meaning fall or drop straight down at high speed:
Meaning plunge head first into water with one's arms raised over one's head:
Meaning deteriorate suddenly and dramatically:
Meaning fall suddenly, clumsily, or headlong:
Meaning set (one's voice or a piece of music) at a particular pitch:
Meaning undergo a sudden severe or prolonged fall in price, value, or amount:
Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:
Meaning make or become less; diminish:
Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning diminish in value over a period of time:
Meaning (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease:
Meaning diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength:
Meaning decide or announce that (a planned event) will not take place:
Meaning stop making (a particular product):
Meaning come or bring to a final point; finish:
Meaning (of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen:
Meaning come or bring to an end:
Meaning bring or come to an abrupt stop:
Meaning bring to an end:
Meaning cease to support or look after (someone); desert:
Meaning go without (something desirable):
Meaning stop or discontinue (an action or activity):
Meaning become unable to find (something or someone):
Meaning admit or agree that something is true after first denying or resisting it:
Meaning a very small drop of a liquid:
Meaning a drop of a thick liquid or viscous substance:
Meaning a small round particle of a substance; a drop:
Meaning an air- or gas-filled spherical cavity in a liquid or a solidified liquid such as glass:
Meaning a hole or split in something caused by it having been pulled apart forcefully:
Meaning a small round mark or spot:
Meaning a sphere-like but not perfectly spherical body:
Meaning a body, object, or design with an oval shape or outline:
Meaning a lump of a semi-liquid substance:
Meaning a small shaped piece of sweet food made with sugar:
Meaning a small medicinal tablet, originally in the shape of a lozenge, taken for sore throats and dissolved in the mouth:
Meaning a small sweet or lozenge:
Meaning a food in the form of a paste or solid block made from roasted and ground cacao seeds, typically sweetened and eaten as confectionery:
Meaning a piece of confectionery; a sweet:
Meaning a thick paste made of sugar and water and often flavoured or coloured, used in the making of sweets and the icing and decoration of cakes:
Meaning a kind of firm or hard sweet which softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavourings added:
Meaning sweets; confectionery:
drop antonyms
Meaning raise to a higher position or level:
Meaning move from a lower position to a higher one; come or go up:
Meaning become or make greater in size, amount, or degree:
Meaning persist in an activity or process:
Meaning be successful or victorious in (a contest or conflict):
Translation of drop
- German: Fall, Sturz, Tropfen
- French: chute, tomber, chuter, goutte
- Italian: caduta, gocciolare, gocciare, goccia
- Portuguese: queda, gota
- Spanish: caída, caer, gota
Anagrams of drop
Words that rhyme with drop
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