droop Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a shape that sags
    sag.
    • there was a sag in the chair seat
  2. verb droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
    flag; swag; sag.
  3. verb hang loosely or laxly
    loll.
    • His tongue lolled
  4. verb become limp
    wilt.
    • The flowers wilted

WordNet

Droop intransitive verb
Etymology
Icel. drpa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Drooped ; present participle & verbal noun Drooping
Definitions
  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.
Droop transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To let droop or sink. R. M. Arnold.
    Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.
Droop noun
Definitions
  1. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.

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