All drop synonyms

verb drop

• abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
• shoot — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
• collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
• dump — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
• tumble — to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong: to tumble down the stairs.
• dive — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
• slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
• shed — Textiles. (on a loom) a triangular, transverse opening created between raised and lowered warp threads through which the shuttle passes in depositing the loose pick.
• abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
• slide — to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface: to slide down a snow-covered hill.
• plummet — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
• go down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• knock — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
• release — to lease again.
• fell — simple past tense of fall.
• sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
• drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
• distill — to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
• snow — Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
• seep — to pass, flow, or ooze gradually through a porous substance: Water seeps through cracks in the wall.
• leak — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
• drip — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
• hail — to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
• bleed — When you bleed, you lose blood from your body as a result of injury or illness.
• splash — to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter: Don't splash her dress!
• descend — If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level.
• percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
• bead — Beads are small pieces of coloured glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through the middle. Beads are often put together on a piece of string or wire to make jewellery.
• precipitate — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
• trickle — to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream: Tears trickled down her cheeks.
• dribble — to fall or flow in drops or small quantities; trickle.
• ooze — (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
• trill — to cause to flow in a thin stream.
• duck — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
• relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
• loosen — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
• topple — to fall forward, as from having too heavy a top; pitch; tumble down.
• unload — to take the load from; remove the cargo or freight from: to unload a truck; to unload a cart.
• flop — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
• floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
• pitch — to smear or cover with pitch.