dejar caer — meaning in English

English meaning

• drop noun A small round blob of liquid.
• fumble verb To handle something clumsily or nervously, often dropping or mishandling it.
• plop noun A soft, dull sound like something dropping into water.
• slam verb To shut something with sudden force and a loud noise.

Senses

dejar caer is used for these senses in English:

• drop (transitive, ergative, also, figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on). [from 14th c.]
• fumble (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
• plop (ambitransitive) To land heavily or loosely.
• slam (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
• slam (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)

drop — full definition

1. noun A small round blob of liquid.
2. verb To let something fall, or to fall oneself.
3. verb To release something (a song, product, or piece of information) to the public.
4. verb To stop doing, discuss, or associate with something; to abandon it.

fumble — full definition

1. verb To handle something clumsily or nervously, often dropping or mishandling it.
2. verb In sports, to accidentally drop the ball.
3. noun An instance of dropping or clumsily mishandling something, especially in sport.

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