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Droop
Droop
(droōp)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Drooped
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drooping
.] 1.
To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.
“The purple flowers droop.” “Above her drooped a lamp.” Tennyson.
I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to
droop
and languish. Swift.
2.
To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish;
as, her spirits
. drooped
I’ll animate the soldier's
drooping
courage. Addison.
3.
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
“Then day drooped.” Tennyson.
Droop
,Verb.
T.
To let droop or sink.
[R.]
M. Arnold.
Like to a withered vine
That
That
droops
his sapless branches to the ground. Shakespeare
Droop
,Noun.
A drooping;
as, a
. droop
of the eyeWebster 1828 Edition
Droop
DROOP
,Verb.
I.
1.
To sink or hang down; to lean downwards, as a body that is weak or languishing. Plants droop for want of moisture; the human body droops in old age or infirmity.2.
To languish from grief or other cause.3.
To fail or sink; to decline; as, the courage or the spirits droop.4.
To faint; to grow weak; to be dispirited; as, the soldiers droop from fatigue.Definition 2024
droop
droop
English
Verb
droop (third-person singular simple present droops, present participle drooping, simple past and past participle drooped)
- (intransitive) To sink or hang downward; to sag.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter III”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].
- Sylvester Stallone (1946-)
- I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
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- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
- (intransitive) To lose all enthusiasm or happiness.
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
- I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
- Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
- I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
- Like to a withered vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
- William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
- To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
- when day drooped
- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Translations
to sink or hang downward; to sag
to slowly become limp; to bend gradually
to lose all enthusiasm or happiness
Noun
droop (plural droops)
- something which is limp or sagging;
- a condition or posture of drooping
- He walked with a discouraged droop.
Translations
a condition or posture of drooping
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