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Definition of Drop down
1. Verb. Fall or descend to a lower place or level. "He sank to his knees"
Related verbs: Fall Off, Sink, Slump, Drop
Specialized synonyms: Drop Open, Fall Open, Droop, Flag, Sag, Swag, Sag, Sag Down
Generic synonyms: Change Posture
Derivative terms: Drop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drop Down
Literary usage of Drop down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"Their clouds have not ceased " to drop down fatness, nor their land to give its
increase;" they have been visited neither with drought, nor mildew, ..."
2. Across Unknown South America by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1913)
"... MORE BAD RAPIDS — ON THE VERGE OF A FATAL drop down A WATERFALL — SAVED IN
TIME — A MAGNIFICENT SIGHT — THE AUGUST FALLS — A MUTINY — THE CANOE, ..."
3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John Smith (1867)
"... which is very pleasant. drop down as dead, being choked; but with much ado,
Orange Moll did thrust her finger down his throat, and brought him to life ..."
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