Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To bend or hang downward: "His mouth drooped sadly, pulled down, no doubt, by the plump weight of his jowls” ( Gore Vidal).
- v. To bend or sag gradually: flowers drooping in the midday heat.
- v. To sag in dejection or exhaustion: drooped from lack of sleep.
- v. To let bend or hang down: "He drooped his body over the rail” ( Norman Mailer).
- n. The act or condition of drooping.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To sink or hang down; bend or hang downward, as from weakness or exhaustion.
- To languish from grief or other cause; fall into a state of physical weakness.
- To fail or sink; flag; decline; be dispirited: as, the courage droops; the spirits droop.
- To tend gradually downward or toward a close.
- To drip; be wet with water.
- To let sink or hang_down: as, to droop the head.
- n. The act of drooping, or of bending or hanging down; a drooping position or state.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To sink or hang downward; to sag.
- v. intransitive To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
- v. intransitive To lose all enthusiasm or happiness.
- n. something which is limp or sagging; a condition or posture of drooping
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. 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.
- v. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish.
- v. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- v. rare To let droop or sink.
- n. A drooping.
WordNet 3.0
- v. hang loosely or laxly
- n. a shape that sags
- v. become limp
- v. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
Etymologies
- From Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drūpa; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The phenomenon, called droop, has been a focus of Mr. Nakamura and other faculty members at University of California, Santa Barbara, including Soraa co-founders Steve DenBaars and James Speck .”
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“Eventually, though, the leaves will begin to droop, which is a sure sign it needs water.”
“It seems that wife, Maureen was keen to try something a little different to avoid the traditional, emotional disappointment inflicted upon her spirit by the annual Xmas tree 'droop' in the Roberts household.”
“The precision ( "droop") of this unit is less than 1%, hence considerably better than the mechanical unit.”
“There was no superfluous flesh about him; he was tall and muscular, with well - knit limbs, broad shoulders, and a head altogether lacking in the humble or conciliatory 'droop' which all worldly-wise parsons cultivate for the benefit of their rich patrons.”
“They kissed in the hallway, and while she was being shown around the house, Miss Benjamin's eyes began to "droop" and her mouth began to froth before she collapsed.”
“LF: Can you find a more gelatinous one and kind of droop it over his hand between his thumb and forefinger?”
“Ah, Peter! some maid will see the lovelight aflame in 'em some day, an 'droop' er 'ead an' blush an 'tremble -- for she'll know, Peter, she'll know; maids was made to be loved, Peter -- ”
“His mouth stretches into the rotten-toothed leer that manages to achieve sexy and forsaken with one tongue-lurching spasm - he can still do that - and his eyelids droop slow until his long lashes meet his cheekbones, his lips settle into that bow-shaped kiss-pout carved proud from plums”
“His hands droop and his lips slow and he seems to be winding down, so I tap on the window and he opens his eyes.”
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