drop off
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
fall or diminish
The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test
Types & categories
- decrease hypernym
Related & opposite
- decrease derivation
Sense 2 verb
change from a waking to a sleeping state
he always falls asleep during lectures
Types & categories
- zonk out hyponym
Related & opposite
- awake antonym
Sense 3 verb
leave or unload
unload the cargo
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- drop derivation
Sense 4 verb
retreat
Types & categories
- retrogress hypernym
Related & opposite
- pull ahead antonym
- receding derivation
- ceding back derivation
Sense 5 verb
get worse
My grades are slipping
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | decrease |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | decrease |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | awake |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | zonk out |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | drop |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | deliver |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | wharf |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | air-drop |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | pull ahead |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | receding |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ceding back |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | retrogress |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | slippage |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | drop-off |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | decline |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | backslide |