to drop
- verb
- /drɑp/
- The company's profits have started to drop as sales decline.
- prices dropped
- dropped 56 percent
- the rate dropped
And blood pressure drops, heart rate drops to critical level.
- And blood pressure drops, heart rate drops to critical level.
- And they go, OK, what if we drop the price of this bond?
- AMD meanwhile is doing what AMD does, which is drop the price and reaction to things.
- But for the most part, muscle tone has also dropped significantly at that point.
- So when the seizure stops, your heart rate can drop, what we call a bradycardia.
Examples
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Following the announcement, the stock prices began to drop rapidly.
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'And utilities dropped very slightly.
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And they go, OK, what if we drop the price of this bond?
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And now the stock market's starting to drop again quite sharply.
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In 2012, the survey indicated that teachers' job satisfaction had dropped to the lowest level in 25 years.
Academic text (2015) -
Print-only subscriptions dropped from 64 percent to 30 percent during the same period.
Academic text (2012) -
When Japan's long-term interest rate dropped to below 1 percent, bank lending screeched to a halt.
Academic text (2011) -
Many students saw their grades drop significantly after the difficult tests.
Synonyms
Become less in number or amount
To become less in amount, size, or value
To become lower, for example temperature or prices
To become worse or fall to a lower level
Fall suddenly and steeply from a high place or in amount
Become less in number, amount, or quality
To fall from a higher place to a lower place
To become less in number or amount
To become less in amount or quality
To fall in value after a period of rapid rise
To fall quickly to a much lower level
To become less over time
To fall suddenly to a much lower level
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
A very small amount that does not help with a much larger problem
- Offensive
Become vulnerable to sexual attack in prison, often used as a grim joke or warning
- Texting
Finish speaking or performing in a confident, impressive way that needs no reply
- Offensive
Say the rude word 'fuck', often in a situation where it surprises or offends people
- Informal
To prepare for a real fight or, informally, to stop fighting and start working together
Phrasal Verbs
To move to a position behind other players, for example to prepare a pass or to help defend
- Specialized
To stop using some parts of a machine learning model at random during training so it learns better
- Slang
To end a speech or comment with an impressive move to show nothing more is needed
Compounds
- Specialized
An area where supplies or soldiers are dropped from a plane by parachute
- Jargon
A secret place where people leave messages or items for others to collect without meeting
- Specialized
A list of options that appears below a menu item so you can choose one
- Specialized
A soft shot in tennis that lands just over the net and drops quickly, hard to reach
- Specialized
A loss of electrical pressure when current goes through a wire or part of a circuit
- Slang
An impressive ending to a speech or performance that shows nothing more needs saying
- Australian
A fake dangerous animal Australians joke about that falls from trees onto people to scare tourists
- Specialized
A fin under a sailboat that you raise or lower to stop the boat sliding sideways
- Specialized
A large curtain that people lower from above to make a background on a stage
- Specialized
A large curtain hung above the stage that lowers to make background scenery
- Jargon
A moment when a song starts in a film or show that makes the scene more powerful
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
To drop (a value) keeps the basic idea of 'falling' — numbers move down to a lower level, so to drop means to become less or go down.