GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Found 3 definitions

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   Droop , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] [Icel. drūpa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.]
   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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   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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   To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. “Then day drooped.”
   Tennyson.
   
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   Droop, v. t. To let droop or sink. [R.]
   M. Arnold.
   
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   Like to a withered vine
   That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
   Shak.
   
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   Droop, n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
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