Meanings
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
1. to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind
2. to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape
3. to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election)
4. to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances
5. to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with
6. to download; to copy from a computer to another medium
7. to make someone swoon (judo)
8. to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)
9. to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)
10. to win over; to seduce; to conquer (unwillingness)
Kanji used
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Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (64 in total)
to drop one's shoulders
to look downwards (at); to lower one's gaze; to drop one's eyes
to lose one's life
to cut off; to lop off; to prune
to look downwards; to lower one's eyes
to thrust down; to push off
to knock down; to knock off
to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)
to drop; to let fall; to omit
to shake off; to throw off
to cast a shadow
to behead; to decapitate
to lower one's voice; to speak more softly
to brush off; to shake off
to take by storm (e.g. a castle); to assault; to capture; to reduce
to be discouraged; to be disheartened
to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)
to persuade; to prevail upon; to win a woman's heart; to win over; to talk someone into doing
to reduce (one's) speed; to slow down (driving, cycling, etc.)
to throw down
to descend; to stoop; to degrade oneself; to be reduced to
to chip off; to scrape off; to prune
to drop to one's knees; to sink to one's knees
to wash off; to wash out
to knock down the price of; to make a successful bid (for an article); to buy at auction
to pull down; to automatically debit (from a bank account)
to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)
to scrape off; to plane off
to sift out; to screen or eliminate (candidates)
to lose money; to spend money
to capture a fort
to charge to the company; to put on an expense account; to write off as an expense
to drop into; to slip into; to let fall into; to slide (something) down
great vigor; tremendous energy; (lit.) forceful enough to knock down birds in flight
to scold severely; to thunder against; to give someone hell
to fail to earn a credit; to fail to make the grade
to persuade by tears; to use tears to get one's way
to fail to hear; to miss
to scrape off; to rub off
to scrape off; to rub off
to shave off (hair)
to overlook in reading
to blow down (fruit)
to scrape off; to scrape away; (arch.) to chop off (someone's head)
to sift out; to screen or eliminate (candidates)
to drop; to let fall; to omit
to wipe off (e.g. dirt); to rub out
to press (someone to do something); to make confess
to scrape off; to scrape away; (arch.) to chop off (someone's head)
to exorcise; to escape evil
great vigor; tremendous energy; (lit.) forceful enough to knock down birds in flight
to cut off; to lop off; to prune
to drop to one's knees; to sink to one's knees
to shave off (hair)
to shake down (e.g. nuts from a tree)
to shake down (e.g. nuts from a tree)
to neglect to make an entry in a ledger
to exorcise a fox spirit (from a person)
Examples (36 in total)
You dropped your handkerchief.
Mayuko has dropped the ball.
I'm going to lose weight.