These days you can't walk down the street without seeing people dropping litter.
Source: tatoeba (18706)
Dropping
//ˈdɹɒpɪŋ//
Synonyms for "dropping" (65 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (32)
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1 entriesderived
15 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σπύραθοι noun (animal excrement)
Armenian
1 entries- ծիրտ noun (animal excrement)
Bulgarian
1 entries- курешки noun (animal excrement)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 糞 /粪 noun (animal excrement)
Dutch
1 entries- keutel noun (animal excrement)
Finnish
4 entries- jätös noun (animal excrement)
- lanta noun (animal excrement)
- papana noun (animal excrement)
- uloste noun (animal excrement)
French
2 entries- crotte noun (animal excrement)
- fiente noun (animal excrement)
Galician
2 entries- bosta noun (animal excrement)
- cagalla noun (animal excrement)
German
1 entries- Kot noun (animal excrement)
Greek
1 entries- βερβελιές noun (animal excrement)
Gujarati
1 entries- હગાર noun (animal excrement)
Hindi
4 entries- बीट noun (animal excrement)
- मिंगनी noun (animal excrement)
- मींगनी noun (animal excrement)
- मेंगनी noun (animal excrement)
Italian
1 entries- escrementi noun (animal excrement)
Japanese
2 entries- ふん noun (animal excrement)
- 糞 noun (animal excrement)
Latvian
1 entries- mēsli noun (animal excrement)
Lithuanian
1 entries- išmatos noun (animal excrement)
Māori
4 entries- hamiti noun (animal excrement)
- hamuti noun (animal excrement)
- kurakura noun (animal excrement)
- roke noun (animal excrement)
Portuguese
1 entries- excrementos noun (animal excrement)
Romanian
1 entries- găinaț noun (animal excrement)
Russian
3 entries- кака́шки noun (animal excrement)
- наво́з noun (animal excrement)
- помёт noun (animal excrement)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- buachar noun (animal excrement)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- kaka noun (animal excrement)
Swedish
1 entries- spillning noun (animal excrement)
Tagalog
1 entries- ipot noun (animal excrement)
Turkish
1 entries- pislik noun (animal excrement)
Ukrainian
2 entries- кал noun (animal excrement)
- лайно noun (animal excrement)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phân noun (animal excrement)
Walloon
3 entries- polene noun (animal excrement)
- schite noun (animal excrement)
- stron noun (animal excrement)
Welsh
4 entries- baw noun (animal excrement)
- cagl noun (animal excrement)
- ceglyn noun (animal excrement)
- dom noun (animal excrement)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
A delivery man is dropping off an arrangement of artificial flowers.
Source: tatoeba (18873)
Leaves were dropping silently to the ground.
Source: tatoeba (25454)
Mrs. Young wouldn't mind my dropping in on her unexpectedly.
Source: tatoeba (30168)
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