to air-drop
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4.6
- verb
- /ˈɛrˌdrɒp/
:
lanzar desde el aire
- The Omnidroid's defenses necessitate an air drop from 5000 feet.
- air-dropped food
- air-dropped humanitarian
- air-dropped leaflets
Examples
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Has anyone considered air-dropping supplies into Port-au-Prince, considering the limited ability of ground vehicles to deliver needed supplies into the earthquake-affected area?
Blog text (12) -
With their strength waning each day due to low rations and outbreaks of malaria, the SNLF Marines were kept alive through air drops of supplies and food.
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Then they supported us by air-dropping weapons.
Blog text (9) -
Her only chance of survival is the American food air-drop from the South.
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Food, medical supplies, a generator, all air-dropped, all from China.
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I think somebody should set up a temporary mobile network along the north coast and along the borders, provide free access, and air-drop phones with cameras into those population centers that are cut off or being suppressed.
Blog text (22) -
Hence the leaflets depicting food bags that were air-dropped at the Afghan-Pakistan border in Zabul province.
Academic text (2007) -
The first problem would be handled by air-dropping contraceptive food pellets over the thousands of acres of tree-covered hills where the birds roamed and hid.
Fiction book (2000) -
The military plans to air-drop essential supplies to the remote village next week.
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Rescue teams had to air-drop food and water to the stranded hikers in the mountains.
Synonyms
722
2.7
To take someone or something from a vehicle and leave them at a place
25
3.7
To jump from a plane and slow your fall by opening a cloth that fills with air
15
3.3
Move something or someone from a higher to a lower place, for example land an aircraft
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Air-drop comes from two simple words: air ('sky') and drop ('let fall'), so it literally means to let something fall from the sky. That's why to air-drop supplies is to drop them from a plane or helicopter, often on a parachute so they land safely.