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drop
verb dropped, dropping
    tr & intr
    1. To fall or allow to fall.
      Thesaurus: drip, fall, dribble, trickle, leak, distill.
    tr & intr
    2. To decline or make something decline; to lower or weaken.
    3. To give up or abandon (eg a friend or a habit); to stop doing something.
      Thesaurus: forsake, part with, cast off, abandon, desert, leave, divorce, separate from.
    4. To stop discussing (a topic).
    5. To set them down from a vehicle; to deliver or hand them in.
      Form: drop someone off (also)
      Form: drop something off
    6. To leave or take out someone or something.
      Example: They've dropped me from the team
    7. To mention something casually.
      Example: drop a hint
    8. To fail to pronounce (especially a consonant).
      Example: drop one's h's
    9. colloq
      To write informally.
      Example: Drop me a line
    10. rugby.11. coarse slang except when said of an animal
      To give birth to (a baby).
    12. slang
      To beat to the ground.
noun
    1. A small round or pear-shaped mass of liquid, especially when falling; a small amount (of liquid).
      Thesaurus: bit, speck, dab, dash, pinch, spot, shot, nip, trace, droplet.
    2. A descent; a fall.
    3. A vertical distance.
    4. A decline or decrease.
      Thesaurus: fall, tumble, reduction, decrease, descent, slump, lapse, slip, decline, downfall, declivity, precipitation.
    5. Any small round or pear-shaped object, eg an earring or boiled sweet.
    6. Liquid medication administered in small amounts.
      Example: eye drops
      Form: drops
    7. A delivery.
    8. Used of something that drops, or that is used in or for dropping.
      Form: drop- (usually)
Idiom: at the drop of a hat
    colloq
    Promptly; for the slightest reason.
Idiom: let something drop
    To make it known inadvertently or as if inadvertently.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon droppian.

Phrasal Verb: drop back or behind
    To get left behind others in a group.
Phrasal Verb: drop in or by
    To pay a brief unexpected visit.
Phrasal Verb: drop into something
    To pass idly or passively into (a habit, etc).
Phrasal Verb: drop off
    To fall asleep.To become less; to diminish; to disappear.
Phrasal Verb: drop out
    To withdraw from an activity.To adopt an alternative lifestyle as a reaction against traditional social values. See also dropout.
Phrasal Verb: drop out of something
    To withdraw eg from a pre-arranged activity.


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