droop

[droop]

To droop is to limply or loosely hang downward. Have you ever seen the long, floppy ears of a basset hound hanging down? Those ears are drooping.

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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.

Noun
a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat"

Verb
become limp; "The flowers wilted"

Verb
droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

Verb
hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled"


v. i.
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.

v. i.
To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.

v. i.
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.

v. t.
To let droop or sink.

n.
A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.


Droop

Droop , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] [Icel. drpa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.] 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.
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.
3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "Then day drooped." Tennyson.

Droop

Droop, v. t. To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold.
Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground.

Droop

Droop, n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.

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.

To let droop or sink.

A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.

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