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verb
verb
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
noun
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
noun
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
- A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- An area or expanse.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
verb
verb
- make smaller
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make less complex
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- be the essential element
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen and make more modest
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- narrow or limit
- put down by force or intimidation
- undergo meiosis
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- cook until very little liquid is left
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- take off weight
verb
- make smaller
- make or become more narrow or restricted
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- engage by written agreement
- squeeze or press together
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- become smaller or draw together
- compress or concentrate
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
noun
verb
verb
- To make smaller.
- To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.
- To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens.
verb
- To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
- To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
- To feel generous or optimistic.
- To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
- To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
- To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
- To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
- To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
- To speak or write at length or in detail.
adj
- Short in duration; brief.
- Operating on a small scale.
- Very young.
- To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
- Younger.
- Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- Used to belittle a person.
noun
- One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- A small amount.
- A child; particularly an infant.
- A newly initiated member of a sorority, who is mentored by a big.
- The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
pron
adv
det
noun
- A reversible reduction in size.
- The acquisition of something, generally negative.
- A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
- A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
- A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
- The process of contracting a disease.
- A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- A shortening of a muscle during its use.
verb
- To measure the duration of.
- To measure the speed of.
- To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
- To identify someone as being transgender.
- To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something.
- To beat a video game.
- To hit (someone) heavily.
- To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
noun
- The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
- A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
- A time clock.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
adj
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Young, as a child.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- That is small (the manufactured size).
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”)
adv
noun
- Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- One who fits an item of that size.
- One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
- An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
verb
verb
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- occupy a large, elongated area
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- lie down comfortably
- pull in opposite directions
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- extend one's body or limbs
adj
noun
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
noun
verb
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend in scope or range or area
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- make available; provide
- thrust or extend out
- reach outward in space
- offer verbally
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- expand the influence of
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
- cause to move at full gallop
- open or straighten out; unbend
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- prolong the time allowed for payment of
- continue or extend
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
verb
- cut short
- prepare for crops
- yield crops
- let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
noun
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
- a collection of people or things appearing together
- the output of something in a season
- the stock or handle of a whip
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
noun
noun
- Duration.
- The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
- Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
adj
noun
- the complete duration of something
- the distance or interval between two points
- two items of the same kind
- a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
- a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
verb
adv
verb
- To prolong; to make longer (in time).
- To rotate about the yaw axis while skidding, such that the vehicle's longitudinal axis is no longer aligned with its direction of linear motion.
- To form a subsidiary company which continues part of the prior operations of the parent company.
- To cause one's vehicle to rotate about the yaw axis while skidding, such that the vehicle's longitudinal axis is no longer aligned with its direction of linear motion; or to experience such behavior from one's vehicle.
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