Drop
Drop verb - To stop doing (something) permanently.
Usage example: isn't it time you dropped that smoking habit and spent your money on better things?
Start
Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).
How words are described
| good | good drop | good start |
| full | full drop | full start |
| nice | nice drop | nice start |
| long | long drop | long start |
| Other adjectives: better, initial, top, small, actual, massive, big, huge, slight, bad, early, possible, final, significant, flying, last, several, literal, sudden. | ||
Common collocations
| series | drop series | start series |
| line | drop line | start line |
| level | drop level | start level |
| investigation | drop investigation | start investigation |
| Other words: times. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Physical Fitness Punishment: Sergeant Major Bougus has several officer recruits drop and start doing pushups: One for mouthing off to him, and another for smirking at the first one doing pushups.
Source: Series / Space: Above and Beyond -
The author's wild-running attention span has caused him to start and drop so many plots and characters, it isn't even funny.
Source: What Happened to the Mouse? -
Space: Above and Beyond: Part of Sergeant Major Bougus's Establishing Character Moment in the pilot is to make several of the main characters drop and start giving him pushups.
Source: Physical Fitness Punishment
Cite this Source
Start and Drop. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/drop/start
Drop & Start. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/drop/start>.
Start or Drop. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/drop/start.
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