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drop off

• fall asleep easily, especially without intending to.
• "struggle as she might, she kept dropping off"
Similar: fall asleep, go to sleep, get to sleep, doze (off), have a nap, catnap, drowse, nod off, go off, drift off, snooze, take forty winks, get some shut-eye, crash out, go out like a light, flake out, conk out, sack out, zone out,
Opposite: wake up,

drop-off noun

• a decline or decrease.
• "a sudden drop-off in tourism"
• a sheer downward slope; a cliff.
• "dizzy drop-offs on either side"


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