dropping

[ drop-ing ]

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that drops.
2. something that drops or falls in drops.
3. droppings, dung, especially in the form of pellets.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dropping¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English droppung. See drop, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Roughly two million of them now live in the forests, wiping out 10 of the 12 native bird species by the 1980s and preventing roughly 90 percent of new tree growth by eating the birds who would normally spread the seeds in their droppings.

From Popular-Science

In this way, the scientists have actually used rodent droppings to reconstruct temperature changes over thousands of years.

From Popular-Science

Despite the dropping price of solar, the transition to renewables will still be costly.

From MIT Technology Review

Google is not alone in repeatedly misjudging the dropping price of solar cells over the last few decades and its impact on how we think about clean energy.

From MIT Technology Review

Yes, the cover protects the grill from rain, snow, and bird droppings.

From Popular-Science

Aviation experts across the world experienced severe jaw dropping at this news.

From The Daily Beast

The industry lore is downright jaw-dropping in the details of the cons known as “brick-in-box” returns.

From The Daily Beast

Then we were dropping in on some cabaret in Denver, or perhaps it was a restaurant in Nevada.

From The Daily Beast

Secondly, as GBCE reports, it puts the kids themselves at a higher risk of dropping out of school, or abandoning it all together.

From The Daily Beast

Even by the already money-drenched standards of American politics, the Eldridge campaign was a jaw-dropping spectacle to behold.

From The Daily Beast

First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.

From Project Gutenberg

Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!

From Project Gutenberg

Chief and most musical among these signs were the almost forgotten sounds of dropping water, and tinkling rills.

From Project Gutenberg

You often have fellows dropping in to your chambers at night; at my house we shall be secure from interruption.

From Project Gutenberg

She was only having a look; flying around the shipping and Headquarters camp at a great height, but dropping no bombs.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• clearance
• destruction
• eradication
• expulsion
• removal
• withdrawal