Dropping

/ˈdɹɒpɪŋ/

Synonyms for "dropping" (90 found)

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Closest matches (18)

bag bang booster cascade cataract chute collapse comedown crash debacle deciduous deck declension declination declivitous

Noun(3 words)

course withdrawaldecline declining

Strong matches (27)

Noun(9 words)

decrease decreasing deregistration descent discardingdownward trendingelide exclude excluding

defluxion descending dipping dose down downfall downgrade downhill downpour downturn downwarddownward trenddraft draught draughtsman draughty drooping drop

Related words (45)

Noun(16 words)

fall falling omit omitting plopping plummet plummeting reduction release remove removing sinking slumping unregister withdraw withdrawal

Adjective(1 words)

falling

fix foundering gravitation hit inclination injection mainlining omission overdose plummeting plunging portion potion pounce rapids sagging secretion setting shot sinking

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skin poppingstoop submerging subsiding swoop tottering tumbledown waterfall

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More general

14 entries

academic actionactionadministrative actiondata handling termdescriptive adjectiveeconomic trendlinguistic processmotionphonological processphysical processstatistical changetransitive verbtrend descriptorverb

More specific

25 entries

accidental dropcase deletionclass withdrawalconsonant droppingcourse withdrawaldata pruningdata trimmingdemand declinefree fallgradual drophard droplarge dropoutlier removalprice declineprogram withdrawalrandom omission

Showing 16 of 25 words.

Collocations

13 entries

consonant droppingcourse droppingdrop ratedropping enrollmentdropping outdropping pricesdropping revenuedropping stock pricesdropping temperaturesdropping weightphoneme droppingrate of droppingvowel dropping

Inflections

5 entries

dropped droppings dropsmore droppingmost dropping

Derivations

7 entries

droplet dropout dropped dropper droppings drops dropwise

similar

1 entries

descending

Sample sentences

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These days you can't walk down the street without seeing people dropping litter.

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A delivery man is dropping off an arrangement of artificial flowers.

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Leaves were dropping silently to the ground.

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Mrs. Young wouldn't mind my dropping in on her unexpectedly.

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