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from his nose. 2 bit, spot, particle, taste, dram, sip, nip,
pinch, dash, dab, Colloq smidgen or smidgin: Add a drop of milk
before kneading the dough. 3 descent, fall: There was a sheer
drop of a thousand feet from the ledge into the chasm below. 4
decline, slope, fall-off, drop-off, declivity, incline: The
drop is about 15 feet in 100.
--v. 5 drip, trickle, dribble: As the water drops, filling the
tube, the float rises. 6 fall, descend, sink, drop away or down
or off, dive, plunge, plummet, decline, collapse: The barometer
dropped 10 millibars in 10 minutes. Near that rock, the road
drops to the beach. At the first shot, we dropped to the ground.
7 desert, forsake, give up, abandon, leave, quit, throw over,
jilt, discard, reject, repudiate, renounce, Colloq chuck, ditch,
dump; relinquish, let go, discontinue, stop, cease, end: After
what he said, she dropped him like a hot potato. I wish you'd
drop the subject of my disability. 8 release, let go of, shed,
cast off, discard, doff: Deciduous trees drop their leaves in
winter. 9 omit, leave out, exclude, eliminate: To avoid
confusion with his father, he dropped his middle initial. 10
dismiss, let go, fire, discharge, oust, Colloq chiefly Brit
sack, give (someone) the sack: They dropped her after a week's
trial. 11 decline, decrease, drop or fall off, diminish,
slacken, slack or taper off, subside, lessen: Demand for
swimsuits drops during the winter. 12 drop in (on). visit, call
(on), pop in (on), come by, stop in: Viola dropped in for tea
yesterday. 13 drop out. withdraw (from), leave; rusticate,
depart, decamp, go away or off, take off, turn off: She dropped
out of school. After winning the award, Crater dropped out and
hasn't been seen since.
drown v. 1 flood, inundate, swamp, deluge, drench, immerse, submerge,
engulf: The village was completely drowned in the tidal wave.
2 overwhelm, overcome, overpower, engulf, swamp, deluge,
inundate: We were almost drowned by the responses to our
advertisement.
drowsy adj. sleepy, heavy-lidded, groggy, somnolent, dozy, oscitant;
nodding, yawning; torpid, sluggish, tired, weary, listless,
lethargic, lazy: We all felt a bit drowsy after that big
dinner.
drudgery n. toil, labour, moil, travail, (hack) work, donkey-work,