Crossword-Solution: DROPPING 8 letters, 56 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Dropping p. pr. & vb. n. of Drop
Dropping n. The action of causing to drop or of letting drop;
falling.
Dropping n. That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of
animals.

We have 56 clues for the answer “DROPPING”

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In free fall 1 answer
3-___ (7 letters) 1 answer
Send a quick message to 3 answers
COMING DOWN FREELY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GRAVITY 11 answers
headfirst 15 answers
somersaulting 15 answers
plummeting 16 answers
plunging 16 answers
tumbling 17 answers
Pitching ___ 22 answers
subtraction 23 answers
Tilting 23 answers
deducting 24 answers
taking away 26 answers
DIVING ___ 27 answers
Falling 27 answers
dipping 28 answers
cutback 28 answers
degenerating 43 answers
shrivelling 43 answers
metamorphosing 43 answers
Leaning 43 answers
flexing 43 answers
Tensing 43 answers
truncation 44 answers
tightening 44 answers
constricting 44 answers
altering 44 answers
withdrawing 45 answers
Slanting 46 answers
curtailment 46 answers
Sinking ___ 47 answers
contracting 47 answers
waning 49 answers
Rebate 49 answers
deteriorating 49 answers
reducing 50 answers
decrement 50 answers
Abridgement 50 answers
abating 51 answers
draining 53 answers
compendium 56 answers
DIMINISHING ___ 56 answers
DISCOUNT ___ 58 answers
Headlong 61 answers
constriction 61 answers
squeezing 62 answers
decreasing 62 answers
loss 67 answers
receding 68 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DROPPING (5)

Tomorrow ere fresh Morning streak the East With first approach of light, we must be ris’n, And at our pleasant labour, to reform Yon flourie Arbors, yonder Allies green, Our walks at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands then ours to lop thir wanton growth: Those Blossoms also, and those dropping Gumms, That lie bestrowne unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease; Mean while, as Nature wills, Night bids us rest.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Who wouldn’t, with all those Spanish girls dropping flowers down from their windows! I’d sing to them every night, wouldn’t you, Mrs.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Overall economic activity grew an estimated 4.6% in western Germany in 1990, while dropping roughly 15% in eastern Germany.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
During this time two black spiders, of the kind common in thatched houses, promenaded the ceiling, ultimately dropping to the floor.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
But I could imagine, even then, that, under some excitement which should go deeply into his consciousness—roused by a trumpet’s peal, loud enough to awaken all of his energies that were not dead, but only slumbering—he was yet capable of flinging off his infirmities like a sick man’s gown, dropping the staff of age to seize a battle-sword, and starting up once more a warrior.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with DROPPING (3)

According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing the self, that is, by dropping his ego defences and committing metaphorical suicide, that a person can open up to different modes of being and relating and thereby transform himself into a pure essence of humanity. In so doing, he becomes free to recast himself as a much more joyful and productive person, and attains the only spec…
Neel Burton Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
I turned in my seat. Will’s face was in shadow and I couldn’t quite make it out.‘Just hold on. Just for a minute.’‘Are you all right?’ I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.‘I’m fine. I just . . . ’I could see his pale collar, his dark suit jacket a contrast against it.‘I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about . . . ’ He swallowed. Even in the half-dark …
Jojo Moyes Me Before You
She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
Graham Greene
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Appears in: LAT, WSJ.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (2002–2022).