Crossword clues for drooped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Droop \Droop\ (dr[=oo]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] [Icel. dr[=u]pa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.]
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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. ``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.
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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. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. ``Then day drooped.''
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
Lacking stiffness. v
(en-past of: droop)
Usage examples of "drooped".
The thin strap had drooped off her right shoulder, letting her bodice slip, and he brushed the strap completely down until her breast was exposed.
Her eyelids drooped heavily, and she immediately fell asleep, instinct moving her closer to his warm back.
It drooped around her hips, but was held up by the bulk of her petticoats.
Her head drooped into the curve of his shoulder and neck, and the position seemed so comfortable that she let it stay there.
Slowly his eyelids drooped as he succumbed to his weariness, but not once during his sleep did he turn loose of her hand.
Her eyelids drooped, and she sagged sideways, catching herself at the last moment.
Her gaze immediately unfocused and her head drooped back as if it were suddenly too heavy for her neck.
The shirt hung halfway down my thighs, and the shoulder seams drooped down my arms.
But so great was Bruenor's blow that the leather strappings snapped apart and the duergar's arm went numb and drooped helplessly.
He still held his two scimitars, but his arms hung limply at his sides and his head drooped down, his lavender eyes closed.
Zak's head drooped as he came to know that he had unwittingly played a part in Drizzt's predicament.
The panther's muscles drooped, slack from exhaustion, and the black-furred skin of one shoulder hung out, torn, revealing sinew and cordlike tendons underneath.
The tips of his weapons drooped as Berg'inyon's drooped, and he glanced over his shoulder to confirm what he, and all the others, knew could not be.
Morik had taught him to walk in a way that would somewhat lessen his height, with shoulders drooped but arms crooked so that they did not hang to his knees.
As that limb drooped, Entreri went into a spin, Charon's Claw coming around fast to pick off a thrust from the man coming in at his back, then continuing through, over the wounded man's lowered defense, slashing him hard across the chest.