English Explanatory Dictionary

drop off

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To fall asleep.
To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
To fall off:
To drop from, fall from.
To drop, fall.
To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed.
To lessen or reduce.
To die.
To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

drop off drops off dropping off dropped off

Synonyms

drift off doze off crash out drop off fall asleep get off go night-night go to sleep nod off nod out sack out zone fall off taper off dwindle

Related words

drop-off

Derived words

drop off the face of the earth drop off the map drop off the radar

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 掉落 Chinese Mandarin: 落下 Finnish: tippua French: tomber German: abfallen Hungarian: esik Hungarian: leesik Hungarian: hull Hungarian: lehull Japanese: 落ちる Korean: 떨어지다 Polish: upadać Polish: upaść Russian: па́дать Russian: упа́сть Spanish: caer

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