drop
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(verb) give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this morning" |
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Related Words: bear, birth, birthe, deliver, give birth, have |
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(noun) the act of dropping something; "they expected the drop would be successful" |
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Related Words: descent |
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(verb) stop pursuing or acting; "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off!" |
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Synonyms: knock off |
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Related Words: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, nolle pros, quit, stop |
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(verb) go down in value; "Stock prices dropped" |
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Related Words: decline, fall off, go down, sink, slump, tumble, wane |
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(verb) change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon" |
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Related Words: change |
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(verb) utter casually; "drop a hint" |
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Related Words: express, give tongue to, utter |
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(verb) of games, in sports: "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13" |
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Related Words: lose |
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(verb) leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo; |
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Synonyms: put down, set down, unload |
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Related Words: air-drop, deliver |
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(verb) to fall vertically: "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" |
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Related Words: come down, decline, descend, dump, fall, flump, flump down, go down, plummet, plump, plunge, precipitate |
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(verb) let fall to the ground; "Don't drop the dishes" |
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Related Words: displace, dump, hang, move, plank down, plonk down, plop, plump down |
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(verb) terminate an association with; "drop him from the Republican ticket" |
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Related Words: remove |
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(noun) a central depository where things can be left or picked up |
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Related Words: deposit, depository, maildrop, repository |
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(noun) a sharp decrease in some quantity: "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery" |
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Synonyms: fall |
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Related Words: decrease, decrement |
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(noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" |
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Synonyms: fall, falling |
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Related Words: descent, plunge |
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(noun) a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) |
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Related Words: hiding place |
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(noun) a small quantity of liquid; "one drop of each sample was analyzed"; "any child with a drop of negro blood was legally a negro" |
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Synonyms: driblet |
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Related Words: droplet, raindrop, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity, tear, teardrop |
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(noun) a shape that is small and round; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" |
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Synonyms: bead, pearl |
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Related Words: dewdrop, round shape, teardrop |
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(verb) grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated" |
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Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate |
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Related Words: age, decline, fade, fatigue, get on, jade, languish, pall, rot, tire, waste, weary, worsen |
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(verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) |
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Synonyms: flatten |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(verb) as of trees or people |
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Synonyms: cut down, fell, strike down |
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Related Words: chop down, cut, cut, log, lumber, poleax, poleaxe |
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(verb) fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees." |
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Synonyms: drop down, sink |
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Related Words: change posture, droop, drop open, fall open, flag, sag, sag down, swag |
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(verb) leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
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Synonyms: leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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Related Words: forget, jump, pass over, skip, skip over |
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(verb) pay out; "spend money" |
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Synonyms: expend, spend |
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Related Words: afford, blow, commit, consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, invest, misspend, pay, penny-pinch, place, put, run through, squander, trifle away, underspend, use up, wanton, wanton away, ware, waste, wipe out |
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(verb) hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling" |
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Synonyms: dangle, swing |
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Related Words: droop, hang, loll |
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(noun) a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage |
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Synonyms: drop cloth, drop curtain |
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Related Words: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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(verb) stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" |
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Synonyms: dismiss, send away, send packing |
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Related Words: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, sack, send away, terminate |
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(verb) get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss" |
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Synonyms: cast, cast off, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
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Related Words: autotomize, exfoliate, exuviate, molt, moult, remove, shed, slough, take, take away |
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