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Webster 1913 Edition


Droop

Droop

(droōp)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Drooped
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Drooping
.]
[Icel.
drūpa
; 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.
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
droops
his sapless branches to the ground.
Shakespeare

Droop

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

Webster 1828 Edition


Droop

DROOP

,
Verb.
I.
[L., from the root of drop.]
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)

  1. (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.
  2. (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
  3. (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.
  4. (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.
  5. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.

Translations

Noun

droop (plural droops)

  1. something which is limp or sagging;
  2. a condition or posture of drooping
    He walked with a discouraged droop.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -oːp

Verb

droop

  1. singular past indicative of druipen