Dropping Meaning and Definition

Word: Dropping

How to pronounce: ˈdrɒpɪŋ

How to pronounce: drɒp

Verb

Definitions:

1. Let or make (something) fall vertically.

Example sentences: "The fire was caused by someone dropping a lighted cigarette"

2. Fall vertically.

Example sentences: "The spoon dropped with a clatter from her hand"

3. Make or become lower, weaker, or less.

Example sentences: "He dropped his voice as she came into the room"

4. Abandon or discontinue (a course of action or study)

Example sentences: "The charges against him were dropped last year"

5. Set down or unload (a passenger or goods), especially on the way to somewhere else.

Example sentences: "His mum dropped him outside and drove off to work"

6. (in sport) fail to win (a point or a match)

Example sentences: "The club have yet to drop a point in the Second Division"

7. 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.

Example sentences: "East drops the 10 on the second round"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface.

Example sentences: "The first drops of rain splashed on the ground"

2. An instance of falling or dropping.

Example sentences: "They left within five minutes of the drop of the curtain"

3. A delivery.

4. A small, round sweet or lozenge.

Example sentences: "A chocolate drop"

5. An earring that hangs down from the earlobe.

Example sentences: "Simple amethyst and diamond drops"

6. A section of theatrical scenery lowered from the flies; a drop cloth or drop curtain.

Example sentences: "Judd's sets consisted of green and blue upstage drops that moved through a number of positions but did not further encroach on the open space of the stage."

7. A trapdoor on a gallows, the opening of which causes the prisoner to fall and thus be hanged.

Example sentences: "Warders, standing on planks, invariably flanked the prisoners on the drop"

Synonyms:

falling

cancellation

Synonyms:

fall

fall out

fall off

free fall

have

raindrop

drip

dripping

trickle

driblet

fell

falling

plummet

slump

down

throw

quit

hurl

toss

leave

check out

cut out

dwindle

decrease

diminish

reduce

lessen

recede

wane

cast off

cast

discard

give

give up

abandon

kick off

depart

deliver

knock off

succumb

devolve

sink

omit

put down

depress

reduction

diminution

go down

tumble

decline

falloff

abatement

demise

a decrease

depression

ebb

decrement

diminishment

ease

bead

blob

glob

collapse

crash

part

miss

descend

lose

neglect

go

jump

pull

pass

descent

lower

subside

abate

dump

discharge

drain

shrink

drop out

cliff

scrap

loss

dip

nosedive

dive

plunge

prostrate

lowering

dribble

droop

dismiss

unload

send away

break off

abort

cancel

revoke

break

repeal

recall

deteriorate

break up

swing

shed

leave off

stop

halt

discontinue

cease

out

taper

shrinkage

taper off

Antonyms:

rise

fly

rise up

Derivations:

dropped

drop

dropper

dropout

dropper

dropping

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Dropping in Other Languages...

Spanish: Caer

German: Drop

French: Tomber

Italian: Cadere

Turkish: Düşürme