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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in globules |
| Synonyms: | bead, bleed, descend, distill, drain, dribble, drip, emanate, hail, leak, ooze, percolate, precipitate, seep, snow, splash, trickle, trill |
| Antonyms: | downpour, pour |
| Main Entry: | drop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon; ignore |
| Synonyms: | abort, adios, be alienated from, break with, call off, cancel, cast off, cease, desert, discontinue, dismiss, disown, ditch*, divorce, dust off, eighty-six, end, forfeit, forget about, forsake, give up, have done with, interrupt, jilt, kick*, leave, lose, part from, part with, quit, reject, relinquish, remit, renounce, repudiate, resign, sacrifice, scratch*, scrub, separate, shake, stop, terminate, throw over, wash out, waste one, wipe out, write off |
| Antonyms: | continue, do, mount, pursue, take up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | down |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | below; physically lower |
| Synonyms: | bottomward, cascading, declining, depressed, descending, downgrade, downhill, downward, dropping, earthward, falling, gravitating, groundward, inferior, nether, precipitating, sagging, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, subjacent, to the bottom, under, underneath |
| Antonyms: | above, higher |
| Main Entry: | downhill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | descending |
| Synonyms: | declining, dipping, dropping, falling, sloping downward |
| Main Entry: | elimination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal |
| Synonyms: | cut, destruction, discard, displacement, dropping, ejection, eradication, exclusion, expulsion, extermination, omission, rejection, riddance, taking away, weeding out, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | fatigued |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tired |
| Synonyms: | all in, beat*, bedraggled, blasé, burned out, bushed, dead*, dead-beat, dead-tired, dog-tired, dog-weary, done in, droopy, dropping, enervated, exhausted, fagged out, jaded*, languid, languorous, lassitudinous, listless, out of gas, overtired, played out, pooped, prostrate, ready to drop, spent*, tuckered, washed out, wasted*, weary, worn, worn-out, zonked |
| Antonyms: | alert, energized, keen, lively, refreshed, vivacious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lessening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decreasing |
| Synonyms: | abating, declining, depreciating, diminishing, dropping, dwindling, dying down, ebbing, ebbing, fading away, lightening, losing momentum, lowering, moderating, narrowing, plummeting, plunging, quieting, sagging, shrinking, shriveling up, sinking, slackening, slowing, slumping, softening, subsiding, waning, wasting, weakening, wearing down, wearing off |
| Main Entry: | shedding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | peeling |
| Synonyms: | desquamation, dropping, exfoliating, exuviating, exuviation, molting |
| Main Entry: | sinking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | settling in |
| Synonyms: | dropping, drowning, engulfing, fading, falling, immersing, submerging |
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