drop off
[verb]
Synonyms:
- set down, deliver, leave, let off
- fall asleep, doze (off), have forty winks (informal), nod (off), snooze (informal)
- decrease, decline, diminish, dwindle, fall off, lessen, slacken

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

drop off phrasal verb (see also drop)

1. to begin to sleep:
She kept dropping off at her desk.
I must have dropped off to sleep.

2. drop somebody/something ↔ off to take someone or something to a place by car and leave them there on your way to another place:
I’ll drop you off on my way home.

3. to fall to a lower level or amount:
The number of graduates going into teaching has dropped off sharply.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

drop off
drop off (someone/something)
to leave someone or something at a particular place.
“Discovery” dropped off supplies and picked up an American astronaut who had spent four months on the space station.

Parents drop their kids off at daycare early in the morning.

to go to sleep.
I must have dropped off during the show, because I don't remember how it ended.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

drop off something
drop off (someone/something)
to leave someone or something at a particular place.
“Discovery” dropped off supplies and picked up an American astronaut who had spent four months on the space station.

Parents drop their kids off at daycare early in the morning.

to go to sleep.
I must have dropped off during the show, because I don't remember how it ended.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

drop off
v.
1. To take (someone or something) part of the way you are going.
Joe asked Mrs. Jones to drop him off at the library on her way downtown.
2. To go to sleep.
Jimmy was thinking of his birthday party as he dropped off to sleep.
3. To die.
The patient dropped off in his sleep.
4. or fall off To become less.
Business picked up in the stores during December, but dropped off again after Christmas.
Antonym: PICK UP¹⁴.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲