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   Droop (dro͞op), v. 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.
   
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   I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.
   
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   2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, “her spirits drooped”.
   
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   I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage. Addison.
   
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   3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. “Then day drooped.”  Tennyson.
   
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