drop
noun
a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
had dropt
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past perfectof drop.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And then a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I. Neither of us had dropt a tear.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Methought the angels must have wept to hear, Methought their tears had dropt like healing rain Upon the fires of torment, and assuaged Their blazing wrath, so piteous was the strain.
From Pan and Æolus: Poems by Charles Hamilton Musgrove
For I had begun to think that, for whatever reason, you had dropt me; and I know not one of all my friends whom I could less afford to lose.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by William Aldis Wright
It turned out that the order had dropt out of the letter enclosing it, and was not recovered.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
When in 1874 the most sanguine prophecies were fulfilled, the Dukes could not have been more surprised if Moses and the Prophets had dropt from the clouds to chide their unbelief.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
