Drop Off

Definition: Drop Off

Drop Off

Verb

1. Fall or diminish; "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test".

2. Change from a waking to a sleeping state; "he always falls asleep during lectures".

3. Retreat.

4. Get worse; "My grades are slipping".

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

Literature

Mining

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

Synonyms: Drop Off

Death

Verb: die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more. Adjective: go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one.

Inactivity

Sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze, drowze, snooze, nap; take a nap; Noun: dream; snore one's best; settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some z's, stack z's.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Crosswords: Drop Off

He wanted to drop off the team (Teen Wolf; writing credit: Joseph Loeb III; Matthew Weisman)

Just drop off the key, Lee (50 Ways To Leave Your Lover; performing artist: PAUL SIMON)

Lansing Residents Can Drop Off Trees (references; author: unknown)

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

Health

The adult female ticks then drop off these animals and lay eggs in spring, completing a 2-year life cycle. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Nevertheless, the recent U.S. economic slowdown along with the implementation of Nafta's article 303 have impacted the industry, causing television and computer orders to drop off sharply by almost 15 percent since February 2001. (references)

Botswana

Mining GDP experienced double-digit growth in 1999 and 2000, due to the Millenium diamond campaign and a buoyant U.S. economy in 2000. This is expected to drop off as the U.S., the world's largest diamond consumer, continues to experience economic growth, but at a much slower rate in 2001. Non-mining GDP slowed from the 7.8% recorded in 1998/99 to a more modest 5.7% in 1999/2000. The big question is whether the growth rate of non-mining GDP will fall further. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "drop off": drop off the hooks ♦ To drop off. Additional references.

Albanian

zbres (alight, bring down, climb down, debus, deduct, descend, dip, discount, dismount, dive, go down, knock off, let off, light, lower, reckon off, recoup, step down, subduct, subtract, take away), rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane), pjerrësirë (descent), pakësohem (decrease, diminish, dwindle, ease off, ease up, fall off, lessen, melt, peter out, recede, slip, wane, weaken, worsen), ndalem (break off, call on, drop in, dwell on, halt, lay off, light, pause, pull up, put up, stand, stand still, stop), bie të fle (fall asleep, go to sleep, go to the bad, repose). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غلبه النعاس (doze). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), оставям (abandon, confide, desert, leave, leave behind, let, put, put down, quit, repudiate, resign, vacate), окапвам (fall off, fall out, soil, spot), опадвам (fall away, fall off, fall out), заспивам (drop asleep, fall asleep, go to sleep, sack out), зарязвам (abandon, cut out, overboard, pack in, put away, put on the shelf, quit, run out, stand up, throw over, throw up, walk out on), падам (attach, come down, crash, descend, drop, fall, fall off, fall out, go down, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

Czech

usnout (fall asleep, get off to sleep, go off, go out like a light, go to sleep, nod off), odpadnout (drop out, fall away), odjet (depart, drive away, drive off, leave, run down). (various references)

Danish

opretning af retningsboring. (various references)

Dutch

drop-off. (various references)

Finnish

viettokulman oikeneminen, nukahtaa hetkiseksi (have a nap, have a snooze), karista (fall off). (various references)

French

déposer (to drop), redressement de la déviation, faire un petit somme. (various references)

German

vorbeibringen (bring around, bring round, drop by), einschlafen (fall asleep, flake out, get off, go off, go to sleep, lapse, pass away, peter out, tail off, to fall asleep), Berichtigung der Bohrabweichung, absinken (fall, go down, go downhill, lapse, plummet, sink, subside), absacken (go down, pitch, sag, sink, subside, subsidence), abfallen (apostatize, be left over, break away, climb down, decline, defect, drop away, fall, fall away, fall off, incline, secede, sink away, slope away, slope down, to apostatize, to fall off, to secede). (various references)

Greek 

πέφτω (blow down, come on, crash, fall, go down, lapse, plonk, plunge, slump, slumped in a chair, take a dive, topple, tumble), λιγοστεύω (cut down, cut down on, drop away, fall off, make inroads into), αποκατάσταση της απόκλισης, αποκοιμιέμαι, αποκοιμάμαι (doze off, fall asleep). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שיל (discard, shed, throw away). (various references)

Hungarian

lehull (fallen, fell, to drop off, to fall), leesik (come off, fall off, have a fall, to come mucker, to drop off, to fall off, to plummet, to slump, to tumble), elalszik (doze off, fall asleep, go to sleep, oversleep, to die down, to drop off, to drop off to sleep, to get off to sleep, to go dead, to go off, to go off to sleep, to go to sleep, to nod off, to zonk out). (various references)

Indonesian

drop (deliver), rontok (deciduousis, fall off, shed), merontok (shed), memisahkan diri, jatuh (drop out, fall, keel over, spill). (various references)

Italian

pendio ripido, far scendere (drop, lower, move down, put off, send down, set down). (various references)

Manx

tuittym ergooyl, faagail magh (except, leave out, miss, rule out), cur seose (abdication, carry forward, disclaim, extradite, extradition, fit on, fix, flush, hang, increase, move, pitch, postulate, put up, relinquish, relinquishment, represent, retire, set on fire, surrender), cooyl-skyrraghtagh (backslider, recidivist). (various references)

Pig Latin

opdray offay.(various references)

Portuguese

deixar (allow, depart, forsake, get away, go, go away, go out, have, leave, leave behind, leave out, let, let go, move out, quit, release, see, step out, take one's leave, throw over, to avoid, to leave, unhand), rectificação do desvio, cochilar (doze, drowse, nap, nod off, slumber). (various references)

Romanian

dispãrea (abscond, clear, decamp, die, disappear, dissolve, do a guy, evanesce, evaporate, fade away, flee, fly, get out of sight, go out of sight, pass away, peter out, vanish), se împuţina (lessen, shrink), pleca dintre cei vii (part), muri (croak, decease, depart, die, expire, get off the hooks, go, go west, hop the perch, kick in, pack up, part, pass, pass away, pass on, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, suffer), adormi (allay, alleviate, assuage, cheat, delude, die, drop asleep, fall asleep, go to sleep, hoodwink, knock out, lull, narcotize, rock, soften, soothe). (various references)

Russian 

расходиться (break up, clash, divaricate, diverge, separate), завезти (bring, leave, take). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smanjiti se (abate, fall off), otpasti (fall off), odvesti (drive away, drive off, lead, march, take, take away). (various references)

Spanish

disminuir (abate, assuage, attenuate, curtail, cut down, damp, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, fall, fall away, fall off, lighten, like, lower, put down, reduce, relieve, subside, weaken), desprenderse (become detached, break away, break off, come away, come off, drop out, fall away, fall off, fall out, fly off), separarse (break, break away, break off, break up, come asunder, come away, disjoin, divide, drop out, fly off, part, secede, separate, split), rectificación de la desviación, quedarse dormido (nod off), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down), apearse (alight, dismount, get off). (various references)

Swedish

upprättning av borravvikelse, slumra till (doze off), slockna (die away, die down, expire, go out, lie down), släppa av (let off, set down), minskning (abatement, curtailment, cut, decline, decrease, decrement, degression, diminution, fall, lapse, letdown, letup, reduction, remission, shrinkage, tail off, tailpiece, wane, wastage), falla bort, falla av (chance, come down, droop, fall off, happen), brant sluttning (escarp, escarpment), bortfalla (be omitted, disappear, fall away), avta (abate, decrease, diminish, ease, ebb, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, slacken, tail away, wane). (various references)

Turkish

düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), uyuyakalmak (doze off, drop asleep, fall asleep, oversleep, oversleep oneself), uykuya dalmak (drop asleep, fall asleep, go to sleep), indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, plant, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), gerilemek (degrade, deteriorate, draw back, drop back, drop behind, fall back, lose ground, recede, redound, regress, remount, retreat, retrograde, slip, stand back, turn back, worsen), eksilmek (decrease, fall away, fall out, grow less, lessen, ooze away, taper off), boşaltmak (bleed, clean, clean out, clear, clear out, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain, drain away, drain off, draw off, dump, ejaculate, empty, evacuate, excrete, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate, void), azalmak (abate, be on the wane, be reduced, decay, decline, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, dive, dwindle, ease off, fall away, fall off, lessen, run short of, run short of smth., sag, scale down, shorten, shrink, sink, tail, wane, wear away). (various references)

Ukrainian

умирати (die, walk), розходитися (disaccord, disband, dismiss, disperse, diverge), зменшуватися (abate, decline, decrease, dispeople, drop across, ease, ease off, fall off, turn down). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: droop, fordo, proof.

-3 letters: doff, door, dorp, drop, food, ford, odor, ordo, pood, poof, poor, prod, prof, rood, roof.

-4 letters: dor, fop, for, fro, off, pod, pro, rod.

-5 letters: do, od, of, op, or.

+4 letters: fireproofed.

+5 letters: flameproofed.