"drop off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-drop off.ogg [Australia] Forms: drops off [present, singular, third-person], dropping off [participle, present], dropped off [participle, past], dropped off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} drop off (third-person singular simple present drops off, present participle dropping off, simple past and past participle dropped off)
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Categories (topical): Sleep Synonyms: drift off#Verb Translations (to fall asleep): tipahtaa (Finnish), tiputtaa (Finnish), s’endormir (French), déposer (French), wegtreten (German), wegdämmern (German), abliefern (German), abgeben (German), ablegen (German), dalassen (German), zurücklassen (German), absetzen (english: passenger) (German), rauslassen (english: passenger) [colloquial] (German), elalszik (Hungarian), elbóbiskol (Hungarian), elszenderedik (Hungarian), elszundít (Hungarian), elszunyókál (Hungarian), álomba merül (Hungarian), visz (english: to take, carry) (Hungarian), elvisz (Hungarian), elszállít (Hungarian), odavisz (Hungarian), lerak (english: to put down somewhere) (Hungarian), letesz (Hungarian), elhelyez (Hungarian), kitesz (english: to put out somewhere) (Hungarian), betesz (english: to deposit) (Hungarian), berak (Hungarian), bedob (Hungarian), bead (Hungarian), lead (Hungarian), addormentarsi (Italian), appisolarsi (Italian), scaricare (Italian), consegnare (Italian), доставля́ть (dostavljátʹ) (Russian), dormirse (Spanish), lämna (Swedish), släppa av (english: drop off a passenger) (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-drop_off-en-verb-en:drift_off__fall_asleep Disambiguation of Sleep: 66 13 20 2 Disambiguation of 'to fall asleep': 93 2 4 1
  2. (idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight. Tags: US, especially, idiomatic, transitive Synonyms (deposit): set down
    Sense id: en-drop_off-en-verb-en:deliver__deposit__leave Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (off), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 49 15 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 50 14 17 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 20 40 27 12 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 21 56 15 8 Disambiguation of 'deposit': 12 68 13 8
  3. (intransitive) To fall off. Tags: intransitive Synonyms: doze off, sack out, fall asleep Related terms: drop-off
    Sense id: en-drop_off-en-verb-en:fall_off__literally
  4. (intransitive) To lessen or reduce. Tags: intransitive Translations (to lessen, reduce): tipahtaa (Finnish), tippua (Finnish), abaisser (French), réduire (French), sinken (German), absinken (German), senken [active] (German), csökken (Hungarian), hanyatlik (Hungarian), esik (Hungarian), zuhan (Hungarian), visszaesik (Hungarian), lecsökken (Hungarian), diminuire (Italian), diminuir (Portuguese), disminuir (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-drop_off-en-verb-en:fall_off__lessen__reduce Disambiguation of 'to lessen, reduce': 6 3 11 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (to fall): 掉落 (diàoluò) (Chinese Mandarin), 落下 (luòxià) (Chinese Mandarin), tippua (Finnish), tomber (French), abfallen (German), esik (Hungarian), leesik (Hungarian), hull (Hungarian), lehull (Hungarian), 落ちる (ochiru) (alt: おちる) (Japanese), 떨어지다 (tteoreojida) (Korean), па́дать (pádatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), упа́сть (upástʹ) [perfective] (Russian), caer (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'to fall': 50 0 50 0

Inflected forms

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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "álomba merül"
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "addormentarsi"
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "appisolarsi"
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "dormirse"
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "tiputtaa"
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "déposer"
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "abliefern"
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "abgeben"
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "ablegen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "dalassen"
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "zurücklassen"
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "de",
          "english": "passenger",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "absetzen"
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "english": "to take, carry",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "visz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "elvisz"
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "elszállít"
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "odavisz"
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "english": "to put down somewhere",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
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          "word": "letesz"
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "elhelyez"
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "english": "to put out somewhere",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "kitesz"
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "english": "to deposit",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "betesz"
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "berak"
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          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "bedob"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "bead"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "lead"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "scaricare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "consegnare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "dostavljátʹ",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "доставля́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "lämna"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 2 4 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "english": "drop off a passenger",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to fall asleep",
          "word": "släppa av"
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        {
          "text": "Can you drop the kids off at school?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I'll drop off your books when I see you tonight.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67",
          "text": "After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight."
      ],
      "id": "en-drop_off-en-verb-en:deliver__deposit__leave",
      "links": [
        [
          "deliver",
          "deliver"
        ],
        [
          "deposit",
          "deposit"
        ],
        [
          "leave",
          "leave"
        ],
        [
          "alight",
          "alight"
        ]
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        "(idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight."
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        {
          "_dis1": "12 68 13 8",
          "sense": "deposit",
          "word": "set down"
        }
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        "especially",
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        "transitive"
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The leaves were slowly dropping off the tree.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fall off."
      ],
      "id": "en-drop_off-en-verb-en:fall_off__literally",
      "links": [
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          "fall off",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To fall off."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 5 95 0",
          "word": "drop-off"
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      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 100 0",
          "word": "doze off"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 100 0",
          "word": "sack out"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 100 0",
          "word": "fall asleep"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Sales have dropped off in recent months.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "To lessen or reduce."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To lessen or reduce."
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        "en:fall off, lessen, reduce"
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        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "tipahtaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "tippua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "abaisser"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "réduire"
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        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "sinken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "absinken"
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        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "senken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "csökken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "hanyatlik"
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        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "esik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "zuhan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "visszaesik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "lecsökken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "diminuire"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "diminuir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 11 79",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
          "word": "disminuir"
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    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "diàoluò",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "掉落"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "luòxià",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "落下"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "tippua"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "tomber"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "abfallen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "esik"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "leesik"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "hull"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "lehull"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "alt": "おちる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ochiru",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "落ちる"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "tteoreojida",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "떨어지다"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pádatʹ",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "па́дать"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "upástʹ",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "упа́сть"
    },
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      "_dis1": "50 0 50 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "caer"
    }
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}
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          "text": "Can you drop the kids off at school?",
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        {
          "text": "I'll drop off your books when I see you tonight.",
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        {
          "ref": "2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67",
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        "(idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight."
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        "(intransitive) To fall off."
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        {
          "text": "Sales have dropped off in recent months.",
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        "To lessen or reduce."
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        "(intransitive) To lessen or reduce."
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      "tags": [
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "doze off"
    },
    {
      "word": "sack out"
    },
    {
      "sense": "deposit",
      "word": "set down"
    },
    {
      "word": "fall asleep"
    }
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "tipahtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "s’endormir"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "wegtreten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "wegdämmern"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "elalszik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "elbóbiskol"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "elszenderedik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "elszundít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "elszunyókál"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "álomba merül"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "addormentarsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "appisolarsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "dormirse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "tiputtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "déposer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "abliefern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "abgeben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "ablegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "dalassen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "zurücklassen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "passenger",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "absetzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "passenger",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "rauslassen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "english": "to take, carry",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "visz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "elvisz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "elszállít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "odavisz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "english": "to put down somewhere",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "lerak"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "letesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "elhelyez"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "english": "to put out somewhere",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "kitesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "english": "to deposit",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "betesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "berak"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "bedob"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "bead"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "lead"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "scaricare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "consegnare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dostavljátʹ",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "доставля́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "lämna"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "english": "drop off a passenger",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to fall asleep",
      "word": "släppa av"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "diàoluò",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "掉落"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "luòxià",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "落下"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "tippua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "tomber"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "abfallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "esik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "leesik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "hull"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "lehull"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おちる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ochiru",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "落ちる"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "tteoreojida",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "떨어지다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pádatʹ",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "па́дать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "upástʹ",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "упа́сть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to fall",
      "word": "caer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "tipahtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "tippua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "abaisser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "réduire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "sinken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "absinken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "tags": [
        "active"
      ],
      "word": "senken"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "csökken"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "hanyatlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "esik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "zuhan"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "visszaesik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "lecsökken"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "diminuire"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "diminuir"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to lessen, reduce",
      "word": "disminuir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "drop off"
}
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