Drop Behind

Definition: Drop Behind

Drop Behind

Verb

1. To lag or linger behind: "But in so many other areas we still are dragging.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Drop Behind

Rain drop behind my teardrop and no one will ever know (I Wish It Would Rain; performing artist: The Temptations)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

mbetem pas (draggle, drop back, fall behind, hang back, lag). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تخلف (be in arrears, be retarded, default, drag, fall behind, go to sleep, go under, lag, linger, loiter, lurk, retardation, retrograde, tardiness), ‏سير ببطء (go slow). (various references)

Bulgarian 

изоставям назад, изоставям (abandon, discard, drop, dump, forsake, forsook, hang behind, lay aside, lay by, leave, neglect, overboard, pass up, put away, relinquish, renege, renounce, shelve, turn from, turn in, walk out on). (various references)

Czech

zaostávat. (various references)

French

prendre du retard. (various references)

German

zurückfallen (drop back, fall back, fall behind, move down, reflect, relapse, return, revert, to fall back, to relapse). (various references)

Greek 

ρίχνω δίπλα, ξεμένω πίσω (drop back). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפ�'ר (be backward, be retarded, be slow, fall behind, lag, straggle, trail). (various references)

Hungarian

sor végére marad (to drop behind), lemarad (fall behind, lag, tail away, to be down the course, to be kept marooned, to be marooned, to drop astern, to drop behind, to fall astern, to lag behind, to miss, to tail away, to tail off). (various references)

Manx

tuittym gys y jerrey. (various references)

Pig Latin

opdray ehindbay

Portuguese

deportar (deport, lag, transport), retardar (brake, defer, detain, impede, lag, obstruct, retard), prender (apprehend, arrest, attract, bind, bond, cage, capture, clip, confine, coop, cop, detain, embay, fasten, gaol, gift, grapple, handsel, hoop, immobilize, incarcerate, jail, jug, kennel, knit, lag, link, lock in, mew, nab, pin, prison, quod, run in, secure, seize, shut, snaffle-bit, take, take up), não acompanhar, ficar para trás (lag, recede, subside), condenar a trabalhos (lag), atrasar-se (be late, dally, fall behind, lag, retard). (various references)

Romanian

rãmâne în urmã (drop astern, fall behind, hang, lag, lose, straggle). (various references)

Russian 

отставать (be in arrears, drag, fall behind, lag, lag behind, lose ground, slow, straggle), отходить назад. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaostati (fall behind, lag, lag behind, trail). (various references)

Spanish

quedarse atrás (be detained, be kept in, fall behind, get behind, hang back, lag, lag behind, linger, remain, stay on, tarry). (various references)

Swedish

sacka efter (straggle), bli efter (draggle, fall behind, lag). (various references)

Turkish

gerilemek (degrade, deteriorate, draw back, drop back, drop off, fall back, lose ground, recede, redound, regress, remount, retreat, retrograde, slip, stand back, turn back, worsen), geride kalmak (be posterior to, drag behind, drop back, fall astern, keep back). (various references)

Ukrainian

відставати (be in arrears, drag, fall behind, hang back, lag, lag behind, lose time, retard, stand behind, straggle). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dihedron.

-3 letters: brinded, hipbone, hordein, phonied, phonier, poinded, prebind.

-4 letters: bedrid, behind, bidden, bidder, binder, birded, bodied, bonded, bonder, bonier, boride, brined, dehorn, dinero, dopier, droned, ephori, heroin, hidden, hinder, hodden, hoddin, hoiden, honied, horded, horned, inbred, ironed, nodder, opined, orpine, period, phoned, pinder, ponded, ponder, ponied, prided, probed, rebind, ridden, rinded.

-5 letters: bided.