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View synonyms for dropping

dropping

[ drop-ing ]

noun

  1. the act of a person or thing that drops.
  2. something that drops or falls in drops.
  3. droppings, dung, especially in the form of pellets.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dropping1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English droppung. See drop, -ing 1
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Example Sentences

Aviation experts across the world experienced severe jaw dropping at this news.

The industry lore is downright jaw-dropping in the details of the cons known as “brick-in-box” returns.

Then we were dropping in on some cabaret in Denver, or perhaps it was a restaurant in Nevada.

Secondly, as GBCE reports, it puts the kids themselves at a higher risk of dropping out of school, or abandoning it all together.

Even by the already money-drenched standards of American politics, the Eldridge campaign was a jaw-dropping spectacle to behold.

First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.

Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!

Chief and most musical among these signs were the almost forgotten sounds of dropping water, and tinkling rills.

You often have fellows dropping in to your chambers at night; at my house we shall be secure from interruption.

She was only having a look; flying around the shipping and Headquarters camp at a great height, but dropping no bombs.

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