dropping

Verb

drop (third-person singular simple present drops, present participle dropping, simple past and past participle dropped or (archaic) dropt)

1. (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
   • The kindlye dewe drops from the higher tree, / And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso
2. (also, figuratively, intransitive) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
   • A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.
   1. (Internet, also, figuratively, intransitive) Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
      • When you defeat this boss, there's a chance a power-up will drop.
3. (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
   • Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!
4. (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
   • Nothing, ſays Seneca, is ſo melancholy a circumſtance in human life, or ſo ſoon reconciles us to the thought of our own death, as the reflection and prospect of one friend after another dropping round us!1722 September 12, Robert Digby, “[Letters to and from the Hon. Robert Digby. From 1717 to 1724.] Letter X [to Alexander Pope].”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq., volume VIII (Being the Second of...
5. (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.

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