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droppingnoun droppings pl.solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canalthe only bad part about owning a rabbit was cleaning the droppings out of the litter box every night dirt, doo-doo, dung, excrement, excreta, feces, ordure, poop, scat, slops, soil, waste night soil, stooldunghill, guano, manure, midden, muckspoorsewage, seweragecoprolite the act of putting an end to something planned or previously agreed tothe dropping of an act from the talent show should bring it in on time abandonment, abortion, calling, calling off, cancellation(also cancelation), recall, recision, repeal, rescission, revocation annulment, invalidation, neutralization, nullification, voidanceabolishment, abolition, ending, halting, stopping, terminationgiving up, relinquishment, surrenderreversal, rollback continuation beginning, commencement, initiationengagement, undertaking to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionallyI dropped the fly ball drop the anchor depressing, lowering, throwing, throwing down flattening, flooring, leveling(or levelling)knocking down, knocking over, striking down, topplingplopping, plunking down(or plonking down)bobbling, bungling, foozling, fumblingimmersing, sinking, submerging lifting, picking up, raising to go to a lower level especially abruptlyalthough they start out high, prices for home electronics eventually drop crashing, cratering, declining, descending, dipping, diving, falling, lowering, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, sinking, skidding, tumbling abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, drooping, dwindling, dying (down), ebbing, lessening, letting up, moderating, subsiding, tapering off, waningreceding, retreating arising, ascending, lifting, mounting, rising, soaring, spiking, upping accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mushrooming, picking up, snowballing, swelling, waxing to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate enddrop what you're doing and come here breaking, breaking off, breaking up, canning(slang), ceasing, cutting off, cutting out, desisting (from), discontinuing, ending, giving over, halting, knocking off, laying off, leaving off, packing (up or in), quitting, shutting off, stopping completing, concluding, finishingclosing (down)deactivatingblockading, blocking, damming, delaying, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, kiboshing, obstructing, stemmingcalling, suspendingarresting, braking, checking, clamping down, reining (in), squashing, squelching, stamping, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning backpausing, staying, suspendingabolishing, aborting, annulling, demolishing, destroying, dissolving, killing, ruining, scuttling, snuffing having done with, putting the kibosh on carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping up, running onadvancing, proceeding, progressingactuating, driving, impelling, propelling, stirring to stop doing (something) permanentlyisn't it time you dropped that smoking habit and spent your money on better things? abandoning, discontinuing, giving up, knocking off, laying off (of), packing (up or in), quitting breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, ending, expiring, finishing, halting, leaving off, shutting offpausing, tapering offthrowing uprounding (off or out), terminating, winding up, wrapping up hanging it up, having done (with) carrying on, continuing, keeping, keeping up, maintaining going, running onhanging in, hanging on, holding on, persevering, persistingfollowing through (with)renewing, reopening, restarting, resumingpreserving, stayingbeginning, commencing, starting to lead or extend downwardthe cable car tracks can drop suddenly, so be sure to hang onto something declining, descending, dipping, falling, plunging, sinking angling, canting, cocking, heeling, inclining, leaning, listing, reclining, slanting, sloping, tilting, tipping arising, ascending, climbing, mounting, rising, uprising, upsweeping, upturning evening, flattening, leveling(or levelling), planing, smoothing, straightening to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)drop that plan in favor of another abandoning, aborting, calling, calling off, canceling(or cancelling), crying off, recalling, repealing, rescinding, revoking, scrapping, scrubbing abrogating, annulling, invalidating, nullifying, voiding, writing offrecanting, retracting, taking back, withdrawingcountermanding, reversing, rolling backbreaking off, discontinuing, ending, halting, stopping, terminatingholding back, interrupting, suspendinggiving up, relinquishing, surrendering continuing, keeping engaging, pledging, promisingbeginning, commencing, initiating, startingtaking on, taking up, undertaking to bring forth from the wombthe cow dropped her calf early this morning bearing, birthing(chiefly dialect), delivering, having, mothering, producing laboringbreeding, multiplying, propagating, reproducing, spawningbegetting, fathering, generating, getting, siringcalving, kidding, kindling, kittening, littering, pupping, whelping giving birth to aborting, losing, miscarrying to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a falldropped the would-be mugger in his tracks with a single well-aimed blow bowling (down or over), downing, felling, flooring, knocking down, knocking over, leveling(or levelling), mowing (down), prostrating kayoing, knocking out, KO'ingoverthrowing, throwing down, topplingbanging, bashing, belting, bludgeoning, clobbering, hammering, hitting, jabbing, pasting, poking, pounding, punching, slamming, slapping, slogging, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, swatting, swiping, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whaling to fail to win, gain, or obtainthe local hockey team has dropped two out of the last three contests losing forfeiting nailing (down), winning conquering, prevailing (over), triumphing (over) to fall or let fall in or as if in dropsthe cold glass dropped condensation distilling, dribbling, dripping, trickling drizzling, sprinklingflowing, pouring, rolling, running, streamingcascading, guttering, riffling, ripplingbleeding, exuding, oozing, seeping, weepingdischarging gushing, spouting, spurting to hand over or use up in paymentI dropped $50 on these shoes disbursing, expending, forking (over, out, or up), giving, laying out, outlaying, paying, shelling out, spending lavishing, rainingblowing, dissipating, frittering (away), running through, squandering, throwing away, wasting caching, hoarding, laying up, savingacquiring, earning, gaining, garnering, making, procuring, realizing, securing, winning to make reference to or speak about briefly but specificallyhe would ever so "casually" drop the names of celebrities he knew personally adverting (to), citing, instancing, mentioning, naming, noticing, noting, quoting, referring (to), specifying, touching (on or upon) alluding (to), hinting (at), implying, indicating, inferring, intending, intimating, suggestingpointing (out), signaling(or signalling), signifyingdenominating, designatingindicatingbringing up, broaching, interjecting, interpolating, interposing, introducinginfiltrating, insinuating, wormingadvertising, announcing, broadcasting, declaring, proclaiming, pronouncing, publicizing, publishing, soundingclarifying, clearing (up), elucidating, explaining, explicating, spelling out disregarding, forgetting, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking, overpassing, passing over, slighting to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentwith these icy road conditions, drivers should be dropping their speed abating, decreasing, de-escalating, denting, depleting, diminishing, downscaling, downsizing, dwindling, easing, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducing compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingabbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittlingdeflating, shrinkingminimizingmoderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swellingelongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protractingadding (to), complementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifyingredoubling to stop livingduring the Black Death people all over Asia and Europe were dropping like flies checking out, conking (out), croaking(slang), deceasing, demising, departing, dying, ending, exiting, expiring, falling, flatlining, going, kicking in(slang), kicking off(slang), parting, passing away, passing (on), pegging out(chiefly British), perishing, popping off, stepping out, succumbing predeceasingconsuming, disappearing, drying up, fading, failing biting the dust, buying it(or buying the farm), giving up the ghost, kicking the bucket, snuffing it(British) breathing, living coming to, revivinglingeringbeing, existing, subsistingflourishing, prospering, thriving in the 14th century |