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verb

Droop v. t. To let droop or sink. (R.) "Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground."

Droop v. i. (past & past part. drooped; pres. part. drooping)

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." "I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish."

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."

To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "Then day drooped."

noun

Droop n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.

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Etymology of 'Droop'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Droop" Quotes from Famous Books

... face so near the professor's is looking sad again. The white brow is puckered, the soft lips droop. No, she cannot stay here, that is certain—and yet it was her father's wish, and who is he, the professor, that he should pretend to know how girls should be treated? What if he should make a mistake? ...

— A Little Rebel - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

... sat beside the river Long ago, my Love and I, Where the willows droop and quiver 'Twixt the water and the sky. We were wrapped in fragrant shadow, 'Twas the quiet vesper time, And the bells across the meadows Mingled with the ripple's chime. With no thought of ill betiding, "Thus," we said, ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 • Various

... toward her as I did toward Lord Leicester," she said thoughtfully. Then after a moment she laughingly continued: "John can't—he can't hang his head and—droop his ...

— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major

... sadly shaken when the actual moment of parting with the exquisite, rose-hatted, gray-frocked Julie came; her face worked pitifully in its effort to smile; her tall figure, awkward in an ill-made unbecoming new silk, seemed to droop tenderly over the little clinging wife. Margaret, stirred by the sight of tears on her mother's face, stood with an arm about her, when the bride and groom drove away in ...

— Mother • Kathleen Norris

... grows bigger and stronger than the others, and soon begins to smother them by pushing his branches and leaves over them. Then they get spindly and weak, and worse and worse, because the big one shoves his roots among them too; and at last they wither and droop, and die, and rot, and the big strong one regularly eats up with his roots all the stuff of which they were made; and in a few years, instead of there being thirty or forty young trees, there's only one, ...

— Rob Harlow's Adventures - A Story of the Grand Chaco • George Manville Fenn

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