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Definition of drop : 1. A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.
2. A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc.
3. 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.
4. A drop press or drop hammer.
5. A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.
6. Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.
7. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
8. Any small pendent ornament.
9. Same as Gutta.
10. 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.
11. The depth of a square sail; - generally applied to the courses only.
12. The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
13. 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.
14. To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
15. 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.
16. 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. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
18. To come unexpectedly; - with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
19. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
20. To fall dead, or to fall in death.
21. To fall in drops.
22. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
23. To fall short of a mark.
24. To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
25. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
26. To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
27. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
28. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
29. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
30. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.
31. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.
32. Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something

Synonyms:

edge, pin, disgorge, shrinkage, doze off, roam, look up, bedevil, twilight, empty, leak, filter, shrivel, waste, unload, refer to, shepherd, roll, dominate, come, draft in, terminate, puke, dram, command, loss, depletion, frame, ballooning, hurl, free fall, thrust, infusion, airlift, slash, cut back, falter, autumn, reach, jack up, give the axe, OD, pearl, free, raise, hawk, salivate, trim, cast-off, bail out, collapse, drift, down, conduct, articulation, precipitation, can, spatter, sweep, draw, fly, strike down, disregard, hurtle, take down, slough, capitulation, discharge, shut up, halve, crack, gloam, antacid, discount, drool, gaze, neutralize, look out on, hold, stammer, lessening, slack, send away, hush, pronunciation, fall asleep, look across, hold your tongue, drop down, fall behind, pucker, surface, nectar, fall silent, deepness, drink, downtrend, exclude, escort, quickly, do in, exculpate, shut out of, buzz, fuddle, pick-me-up, cut down, flatten, assist, bring, bubble gum, a touch of something, throw, fell, call, neutralise, tittle, rove, sack, dump, expel, cushion, ramble, antibiotic, bear, degrade, nightfall, tinge, dope, diminishment, stray, minim, blow, call up, repose, take out, lose your balance/footing, top-slice, deteriorate, catch, drop-off, base jumping, note, see, upset, bury, spend, degenerate, eject, ort, contrive, pay a visit, draft, offload, trifle, jigger, vanish, inundation, cut, break up, push aside, droplet, look around, reduce, overleap, vantage, increase, nip, precipice, modulate, better, to the exclusion of something, give the sack, shake off, swan, drift off, moisture, molt, look in, fragment, fall off, check on, ignore, step-down, dry, vomit, harden, retch, stop, bring along, displace, measure, cast aside, raindrop, dribble, magnetic dip, deliver, off-white, get around, drib, barf, rise, inclination, mow, driblet, chute, inside track, dry up, cut out, shave, cast, acquit, touch on, befuddle, run in, airborne, pass, spue, pour forth, omit, cast out, carry, roll/trip/slip off the tongue, go off, cop, river, bead, aerospace, nosedive, honk, come up, ditch, regorge, shut, slide down, drip, candy, blob, toss out, gliding, visit, look out over, potion, commissioner, sliver, confuse, bone, cease, trickle, molecule, knock down, split up, declivity, aggregate, bulge, lace, cutback, vestige, throw out, get down, clear, anticoagulant, couch, toss away, dot, count out, make, bemuse, amphetamine, lash, check, recede, trim back, bewilder, trim down, send packing, analgesic, drop curtain, leave out, over, teardrop, lift, magnetic inclination, drop in, debark, pick up, captaincy, clam up, invoke, condensation, allude to, give up, chuck out, pronounce, fall away, return, disembark, dip, diminish, gust, spill, bring through, defriend, assoil, liquidate, complete, go under, toss off, upper hand, overlook, advantage, tingle, bale out, regurgitate, do, declension, diminution, except, miss out, downfall, drop away, destroy, put, vagabond, land, relocation, candyfloss, lack, caramel, tramp, throw up, mold, diction, flip, choke, beverage, immediately, inspect, discombobulate, candy bar, articulate, element, nondelivery, air corridor, bring over, candy cane, miss, ivory, brush aside, knock-off, declination, glob, anabolic steroid, leave off, look, fall out, falloff, astragal, record, refreshments, cliff, vault, captain, chuck, bite your tongue/lip, fail, pull down, take in, nod off, crepuscle, talk in terms of something, step, lay, freshen, disgrace, fox, center, big, depth, mention, airdrop, globule, wander, ingestion, cart, to your door, air-to-air, go down, downturn, thieve, enunciate, spit, drive, at the slightest provocation, stead, radius, force out, beadwork, abuse, snort, flake out, air traffic control, fire, slaver, escape from, flatten out, switch, dispatch, vomit up, skid, unlade, demean, glom, gloaming, consignment, angle of dip, antidote, pop in, cut off, dusk, concede, exuviate, purge, neglect, devolve, brush off, throw away, come by, swing out, shift, open, dent, drivel, mainline, deal, tot, cat, antidepressant, drowse off, minimize, spot, intone, bank, airspeed, beading, depression, use, hairsbreadth, examine, all, bring around, muster out, push down, slug, set/put something aside, haul off, spew, escape, attack, project, upchuck, dope off, subside, mould, sway, write down, evenfall, fling off, slobber, swing over, cutpurse, cast away, stare, climb, bungee jumping, jet, scruple, catbird seat, remittance, enter, keep your mouth shut, shake, splash, air pocket, lapse, downswing, give notice, whip hand, referral, downslide, tell of, aerobatics, high ground, jot, pickpocket, turn over to, cliff jumping, deadlock, overtop, ounce, falling off, be sick, sip, pretermit, downslope, scratch off, slabber, swing, bring down, chew, moult, anesthetic, dangle, howl, break, range, lead, crater, drop cloth, dash off, walk, piece, exonerate, snitch, put away, survey, throw-off, hook, abatement, shot, expend, chalk something up, sick, quaver, dwindle, fall back, give, have, redact, pull, confound, get up, finish with, place down, stutter, superiority, bench, fling, pause, put-down, toss, tear, anaesthetic, bonbon, usher out, crepuscule, reduction, candy apple, delivery, set down, jump, come over, break off

descent, comedown, slope, grade

granule, atom, mite, smidgen, shred, scrap, dab, pittance, smithereen, crumb, bit, iota, touch, grain, trace, morsel, speck, whit, dash, flyspeck, modicum, particle

erode, exhaust, debit, decrement, dissolve, decrease, divest, dissipate, deplete, lose, dispossess, misplace, shrink, forfeit

depress, deepen, submerge, shorten

pitch, dive, swoop

abdicate, surrender, discontinue, quit, evacuate, forsake, vacate, relinquish, leave, resign, abandon, defect, desert

fall, decline, plunge, lower, sink, settle, topple, slide, descend, fall down, slip, tumble, come down, plummet, slump

dispel, part with, release, discard, jettison, waive, renounce, disclaim, capitulate, reject, vent, dismiss, dispose, cancel, disown, rid, relegate, shed, let go, forgo

Usage examples:

• I'll drop it down to you, and you send the knife up. - "Smoke Bellew", Jack London.
• Why, madam, when the man threw that great thing down, which looks just like this, I saw that you were very sorry about it, and looked as if you had been just ready to drop. - "The History of Sandford and Merton", Thomas Day.
• Oh, drop those things! - "The Eagle's Heart", Hamlin Garland.