drop

drop is a 4-letter English word with 63 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 63 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.
2. noun. That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.
3. noun. Same as Gutta.
4. noun. Any small pendent ornament.
5. noun. Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something
6. noun. A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.
7. noun. A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.
8. noun. A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.
9. noun. A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc.
10. noun. A drop press or drop hammer.
11. noun. The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
12. noun. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
13. noun. The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.
14. noun. Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.
15. noun. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.
16. noun. To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.
17. noun. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
18. noun. To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.
19. noun. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
20. noun. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.
21. noun. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
22. noun. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
23. intransitive verb. To fall in drops.
24. intransitive verb. To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
25. intransitive verb. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
26. intransitive verb. To fall dead, or to fall in death.
27. intransitive verb. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
28. intransitive verb. To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
29. intransitive verb. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
30. intransitive verb. To fall short of a mark.
31. intransitive verb. To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
32. noun. the act of dropping something

    "they expected the drop would be successful"

33. noun. a central depository where things can be left or picked up
34. noun. a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
35. noun. a sudden 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"

    Synonyms: dip, fall

36. noun. a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity

    "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height"

    Synonyms: fall

37. noun. a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
38. noun. a steep high face of rock

    "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"

    "a steep drop"

    Synonyms: cliff

39. noun. a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)--Kipling

    "he had a drop too much to drink"

    "a drop of each sample was analyzed"

    Synonyms: drib, driblet

40. noun. a shape that is spherical and small

    "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"

    "beads of sweat on his forehead"

    Synonyms: bead, pearl

41. verb. give birth; used for animals

    "The cow dropped her calf this morning"

42. verb. grow worse

    "Her condition deteriorated"

    "Conditions in the slums degenerated"

    Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve

43. verb. fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death

    "shop til you drop"

44. verb. stop pursuing or acting

    "drop a lawsuit"

    "knock it off!"

45. verb. lower the pitch of (musical notes)

    Synonyms: flatten

46. verb. go down in value

    "Stock prices dropped"

47. verb. change from one level to another

    "She dropped into army jargon"

48. verb. leave undone or leave out

    "How could I miss that typo?"

    "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

    Synonyms: miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit

49. verb. omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing

    "New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's"

50. verb. utter with seeming casualness; drop names"

    "drop a hint"

51. verb. lose (a game)

    "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13"

52. verb. take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth

    "She dropped acid when she was a teenager"

53. verb. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

    "strike down a tree"

    "Lightning struck down the hikers"

    Synonyms: fell

54. verb. leave or unload

    "unload the cargo"

    "drop off the passengers at the hotel"

    Synonyms: discharge, unload

55. verb. get rid of

    "he shed his image as a pushy boss"

    "shed your clothes"

    Synonyms: cast, shed, throw

56. verb. let or cause to fall in drops

    "dribble oil into the mixture"

    Synonyms: dribble, drip

57. verb. to fall vertically

    "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"

58. verb. let fall to the ground

    "Don't drop the dishes"

59. verb. fall or descend to a lower place or level

    "He sank to his knees"

    Synonyms: sink

60. verb. pay out

    "spend money"

    Synonyms: expend, spend

61. verb. terminate an association with

    "drop him from the Republican ticket"

62. verb. stop associating with

    "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"

    Synonyms: dismiss

63. verb. hang freely

    "the ornaments dangled from the tree"

    "The light dropped from the ceiling"

    Synonyms: dangle, swing

Synonyms

dip, fall, cliff, drib, driblet, bead, pearl, degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, flatten, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit, fell, discharge, unload, cast, shed, throw, dribble

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in drop:

dorp, prod

Common word forms

drops, dropped, dropper, dropping

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