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
That droops or droop. n. An instance of something drooping v
(present participle of droop English)
WordNet
adj. weak from exhaustion [syn: flagging]
hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) [syn: droopy, sagging]
having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn: cernuous, nodding, pendulous]
Usage examples of "drooping".
Sentinel-like, he saw the silhouette of one lone horseman against the bright morning sky, the horse's neck drooping forward, the rider's body in a stoop-shouldered slant.
From her room, Sass looked into a central courtyard planted with flowers and one small tree with drooping leaves.
He nodded, his lids drooping over brilliant hazel eyes, his perfectly groomed hands relaxed on his knees.
Her hands were hardly visible, what with ruffles drooping from her full sleeves, dozens of bracelets, gaudy rings on every finger.
He stood with his head bowed between his splayed front legs, his finely shaped ears drooping to either side of his elegant head, his black coat grimed and rough with sweat though we had groomed him morning and night.
Peter imaged himself with a huge mouth, lower lip drooping to the floor.
As was her fashion, she crooned over the young plants, stroking a tendril here, with delicate fingers righting a drooping sprout there.
When Tower traffic was very slow, they went camping on long weekends on Altair's scenic Eastern Shore and several times on the Great Southern Wasteland which, the guide showed them, was teeming with all sorts of insect and invertebrate life forms, fantastic flowers that blamed at night or in the dawn-lit hours, drooping and dying once the blazing Altairian primary seared the planet's equatorial areas.
S'peren and F'neldril stood beside him, drooping in grief, their faces suddenly aged.
She passed them quietly, her head bent and her shoulders drooping as she hurried down the corridor to Brekke.
The green dragon was in full sun-just as she liked it, head between her forelegs, wings slightly drooping from her backbone so that their folds would absorb the heat.
Falconer, who leant against the wall looking on with the alert, watchful eyes half screened behind his lids, which, like his daughter's had a trick of drooping, though with a very different expression.
With her foot upon the old-fashioned fender, her head drooping as if there was someone present to see her blushes, she read the letter.
Stephen was washing, and the husband, shattered and destroyed, held the towel in his drooping hands.
It was the launch and it was filled with liberty-men: there were still one or two merry souls among them, but on the whole the Sophies who could walk were quite unlike those who had gone ashore - they had no money left, for one thing, and they were grey, drooping and mumchance for another.