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| Main Entry: |
drop off
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decrease |
| Synonyms: | decline, diminish, dwindle, fall away, fall off, lessen, sag, slacken, slide, slip, slump |
| Antonyms: | go up, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | drop off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall asleep |
| Synonyms: | catnap, doze, doze off, drowse, have forty winks, nod, nod off, snooze |
| Antonyms: | awake, wake |
| Main Entry: | decrease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow less or make less |
| Synonyms: | abate, calm down, check, contract, crumble, curb, curtail, cut down, decay, decline, degenerate, depreciate, deteriorate, devaluate, die down, diminish, droop, drop, drop off, dry up, dwindle, ease, ebb, evaporate, fade, fall off, lessen, let up, lighten, lose edge, lower, modify, narrow down, peter out, quell, quiet, reduce, restrain, run low, settle, shrink, shrivel, sink, slack off, slacken, slash, slow down, slump, soften, subside, tail off, wane, waste, weaken, wear away, wear down, wither |
| Antonyms: | add, develop, enlarge, expand, grow, increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | die |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; stop living |
| Synonyms: | be no more, be taken, breathe one's last, cease to exist, conk, croak, decease, demise, depart, drop, drop off, drown, expire, finish, give up the ghost, go way of all flesh, kick the bucket, perish, relinquish life, rest in peace, succumb, suffocate |
| Antonyms: | be born, begin, live |
| Main Entry: | doze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a nap |
| Synonyms: | catch a wink, catnap, cop some z's, drift off, drop off, drowse, nod off, sleep, sleep lightly, slumber, snooze |
| Main Entry: | nap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a short, light sleep |
| Synonyms: | catch forty winks, catnap, doze, drop off, drowse, get some shut-eye, grab some z's, nod, nod off, rack, relax, rest, sleep, snooze, take a siesta, take a snooze |
| Main Entry: | sag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | droop |
| Synonyms: | bag, bend, bow, bulge, cave in, curve, dangle, decline, dip, drop, drop off, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, flag, flap, flop, give way, hang, hang down, languish, lean, settle, sink, slide, slip, slump, swag, wilt |
| Antonyms: | bulge, draw up, tighten |
| Main Entry: | shrink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become smaller |
| Synonyms: | compress, concentrate, condense, constrict, contract, decrease, deflate, diminish, drop off, dwindle, fail, fall off, fall short, grow smaller, lessen, narrow, reduce, shorten, shrivel, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, wither, wrinkle |
| Antonyms: | develop, enlarge, expand, grow, stretch |
| Main Entry: | slack/slacken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do little or nothing; loosen |
| Synonyms: | abate, decrease, diminish, dodge, drop off, dwindle, ease, ease off, featherbed, flag, goldbrick, goof off, idle, lax, lay back, lessen, let up, lie down on job, loose, moderate, neglect, reduce, relax, release, shirk, slack off, slow down, taper, tire, untighten, wane |
| Antonyms: | stiffen, tighten |
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