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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

... little to the right and behind her. He saw her lids droop and her hands move restlessly. Then, as the curtain went down and Farrar was accepting the customary plaudits, her eyes opened and moved over the rich and beautiful auditorium with a look of hungry yearning. This was too much for Clavering and ...

— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... leaning forward and letting his long fingers droop between his legs, while each finger moved in succession, as if it were sharing some thought which filled his large ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... and prepare, —DuLuth in his breeches and leggins; And the brown, curling locks of his hair downward droop to his bare, brawny shoulders, And his face wears a smile debonair, as he tightens his red sash around him; But stripped to the moccasins bare, save the belt and the breech-clout of buckskin, Stands the haughty Tamdoka aware that the eyes of the warriors admire him; ...

— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon

... We have a vague suspicion as to what it may be, yet she is all innocent of the source from which these new feelings have sprung; even the last low words of Delwood, which are still sounding in her ear, do not lead her to mistrust, and we leave her, as the fringed eyelids at last droop in repose, to take a peep at our hero, who is only distant a few squares from the gentle one, who, he feels, as he sits by the gas-light, made pallid by the dawn of day, is all the ...

— Natalie - A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds • Ferna Vale

... error swept the sky, And Love's last flower seemed fain to droop and die, How sweet, how lone the ray benign On sheltered nooks of Palestine! Then to his early home did Love repair, And cheered his sickening heart ...

— The Christian Year • Rev. John Keble

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