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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.