Droop : Definition

Pronunciation : Droop
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Icel. dr; akin to E. drop. See Drop.]
Definition : 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. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.

2. 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.

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

i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Droop
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Droop
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913