Contact and joining
Synonyms for drop
Synonyms for drop: discharge, drib, cliff, dribble, fall and miss. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 6 synonyms for drop
Interchangeable with drop, one per sense
Audited under drop's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one drop carries in that sense.
- dischargeverb, in the sense "remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave"
- dribnoun, in the sense "a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name drop as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under drop and four under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
The bus will drop the passengers at the hotel.
The true synonym
discharge
Same sentence, swapped: The bus will discharge the passengers at the hotel.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- spend
- miss
- serve
a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
He had a drop too much to drink.
The true synonym
drib
Same sentence, swapped: He had a drib too much to drink.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for drop in the sentence quoted.
- fall
- cliff
- step
Where drop turns up in the game
drop is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 7 puzzles where drop is the trap
- landverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bring, in the sense "bring into a different state", and drop is one of the three tiles that lose.
- pullverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is take, in the sense "remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract", and drop is on the board beside it.
- stateverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is tell, in the sense "express in words", and drop is on the board beside it.
- throwverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is give, in the sense "convey or communicate", with drop sitting one tile away.
Play drop
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so drop reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because contact and joining is the company drop keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. drop carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.