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(v)
(transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
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(transitive) To make something flat or flatter.
(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
(n)
A highly impermeable sheet of material meant to catch paint and similar substances to prevent floor stains.
(ambitransitive, slang) To halt one's work or other activity.
(intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
(intransitive) To ride on a swing.
A small portion or part.
(transitive) To consume, exhaust (some resource).
(N)
a real-time card game from James Ernest in which all players are falling from the sky for no apparent reason.
(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
(law) To invalidate (a law, statute etc.)
To remove (something attached to, on or clinging to an object) by shaking.
To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.
(transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
(physical) To move, or be moved, away.
(transitive, especially British) To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
(intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
(transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.
(adj)
(of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
(transitive) To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
(idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
(transitive) To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.
(transitive) To discard or reject something.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, down.
(idiomatic) To insult, belittle, or demean.
(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
(idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
(idiomatic, transitive) To dismiss from one's presence.
(transitive) To leave out or exclude.
To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention.
(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
(transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
A curtain on the stage of the theatre that is lowered and raised
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(transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
(transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
(transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
(transitive) To let fall in drops.
A small round particle of substance; a drop.
(transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
(onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
The act of shedding, separating, or casting off.
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
A waterfall.
Transparent in colour.
(countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving.
A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
(intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
A lower section of a road or geological feature.
Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
(physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
(banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
(transitive) To discard or abandon.
Having no variations in height.
(intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
(intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.
(ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
(transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
(transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
(common usage) As above, but allowing for the presence of incidental air resistance not caused intentionally by devices like parachutes or wings.
One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
The distance from the base to the top of something.
A narrow part of a navigable waterway.
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.
Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
A case for carrying a tool, particularly a gun, safely and accessibly.
(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.
(clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
A brief, dull sound, such as the sound of a string of a stringed instrument being plucked, or the thud of something landing on a surface.
Alternative spelling of dropout. [Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course]
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.
The act of curtailing.
The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.
A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.