dropping
Meaning of dropping
verb, gerund or present participle
- 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
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 dropping
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of dropping is: droppings.
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Hyphenation of dropping
drop-ping
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- dropping is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
dropping synonyms
Meaning falling:
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 let fall or be so wet as to shed small drops of liquid:
Meaning move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control:
Meaning (of a liquid) fall slowly in drops or a thin stream:
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 go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:
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:
dropping 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):
Words that rhyme with dropping
Ping, ping, Sellotaping, aping, awhaping, bedraping, beleaping, caping, cheaping, craping, dognaping, draping, escaping, gaping, graping, heaping, japing, kidnaping, landscaping, leaping, misshaping, neaping, nonscraping, outleaping, outshaping, overheaping, overleaping, petnaping, preescaping, preshaping, pretaping, raping, reaping, relandscaping, reshaping, retaping, scaping, scraping, sellotaping, shaping, skyscraping, sneaping, soaping, subgaping, taping, threaping, townscaping, transshaping, traping, uncaping
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