The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drop \Drop\, v. i.
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To fall in drops.
The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
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To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory.
--H. Spencer.When the sound of dropping nuts is heard.
--Bryant. -
To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God.
--Ps. lxviii. 8. -
To fall dead, or to fall in death; as, dropping like flies.
Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us.
--Digby. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
--Pope.-
To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
--Steele.Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated.
--Spectator. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
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To fall short of a mark. [R.]
Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance.
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To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
To drop astern (Naut.), to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head.
To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea.
To drop off, to fall asleep gently; also, to die. [Colloq.]
Usage examples of "to drop off".
After an indeterminable number of hours he had left, and he'd done so without bothering to drop off his key at the desk.
Jittery, ghosting flickers cause systems to drop off-line, surge back to operational status momentarily, then drop off-line again, in a random pattern that leaves me unable to predict which weapons systems will function at any given moment in the upcoming battle.
I could take the time to drop off the shotgun, but as long as it was unloaded and the shells were in a separate location, it should be legal enough to drive around with it.
She's at the top of her career, she has stuff hanging all over the world, and now she's going to have to drop off the face of the earth and give it all up.
She reached out her hand to him and he reached for it, but when he touched her, her body began a rapid and loathsome decay, until it was but a rotted, bloated, obscene corpse, covered by masses of living, squirming maggots that began to drop off her and onto nun.
The Catalina remained in the Philippines only long enough to drop off its passengers-a Navy petty officer who was a Japanese linguist, and an Army Ordnance Corps major, a demolitions expert-and its mail bags.
Worst of all, my precious bundle made the mule top heavy comin' down that place back here where the trail seems to drop off the earth.
Their skin began to drop off their bones and, as I stared open-mouthed, they crumbled to powder and dissolved to the ground, their clothes disintegrating along with them.
It was a long climb and Larry was sweating in exhaustion, his injured arm feeling ready to drop off, before they reached the top.