Drop and Wave

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Drop verb - To cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally.

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Wave and drop are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wave" instead a verb "Drop".

Nearby Words: dropped, dropping, droplet, dropout, dropper

Wave verb - To direct or notify by a movement or gesture.

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Drop and wave are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drop" instead a verb "Wave".

Nearby Words: waved, waving, wavy, wavelet, waveband

long	long drop	long wave
common	common drop	common wave
short	short drop	short wave
mass	mass drop	mass wave
Other adjectives: standard, original, initial, single, small, entire, massive, large, big, enormous, huge, early, possible, final, last, literal, giant, red, sudden, aforementioned, attempted.

Lampshaded in Zombie Situation where after a certain wave of zombies dropped an inflatable boat Fred the Crazy-Prepared gun shop owner commented "These zombies drop the strangest things."

Source: Random Drop aka: Randomly Drops
Only when they drop the shields (in effect, giving up) does the tidal wave disappear.

Source: You Were Trying Too Hard
There's also the "wave" of popcorn mooks that drop a Power-Up when all of them are destroyed.

Source: Video Game / Thunder Cross

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