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say it: DRAH-ping
dropping is an adjective meaning "coming down freely under the influence of gravity". It is pronounced /ˈdɹɑpɪŋ/ — DRAH-ping. It carries one recorded sense.
coming down freely under the influence of gravity
“the eerie whistle of dropping bombs”
“falling rain”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dropping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.