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drop down

v. fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees" [syn: sink, drop]

Usage examples of "drop down".

The moving blip had made the cutover across the half-mile wide green lane in the span of one crossover and was now whipping into the merger lane that would take it over the top of the police lane and drop down into the one hundred fifty to two hundred mile an hour blue.

George did not disembark at the stone steps, but after waiting there for some time he began to drop down on the tide, keeping close inshore.

Soon to our ears came the distant thunder of falling waters, and to our eyes appeared on the far horizon ahead the titanic spray of a monstrous cataract, wherein the oceans of the world drop down to abysmal nothingness.

I would simply jump to the top of the wall, take a quick survey of the lay of the land beyond, and then drop down, long-sword in hand, and take my place at the side of the red man.

The instilment thereof into her mind would probably have caused this aged sister to drop down dead, at once, as by the effect of an intensely poisonous infusion.

Long before then we'll be there, even if we have to drop down outside your hunter/seekers' patrol range and come in on foot.

I wish I may drop down dead at my work, and not be sent off to the knackers.

I directed it to drop down and approach the window of the tower where I stood.

I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in 's work.

When I had not heard them for some time, I risked a drop down just below the cloud level.

There will be commotion at home and abroad, and men will drop down exhausted on the highways.