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verb (used without object)
1.
to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
2.
to fall into a state of physical weakness; flag; fail.
3.
to lose spirit or courage.
4.
to descend, as the sun; sink.
verb (used with object)
5.
to let sink or drop:
an eagle drooping its wings.
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noun
6.
a sagging, sinking, bending, or hanging down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
Origin:
1300–50;
Middle English
drupen,
drowpen
<
Old Norse
drūpa;
akin to
drop
Related forms
droop·ing·ly,
adverb
re·droop,
verb (used without object)
un·droop·ing,
adjective
Synonyms
1.
flag, languish.
2.
weaken, decline, faint, wilt, wither, fade.
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droop
(druːp)
—
vb
1.
to sag or allow to sag, as from weakness or exhaustion; hang down; sink
2.
(
intr
) to be overcome by weariness; languish; flag
3.
(
intr
) to lose courage; become dejected
—
n
4.
the act or state of drooping
[C13: from Old Norse
drūpa;
see
drop
]
'drooping
—
adj
'droopingly
—
adv
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
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Word Origin & History
droop
c.1300, from O.N. drupa "to drop," from P.Gmc. *drup-, from PIE *dhreub, related to O.E. dropian "to drop." Related: Drooping.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Flowers are about a half inch long and
droop
down on thin pedicels.
Tongues of dark tan sediment
droop
into the lighter-colored layer below.
Its large, glum leaves
droop
down, away from the sun.
Flowers
droop
from pedicels in the leaf axils and are blotched pale yellow and
about one half inch wide.
Telephone wires
droop
above broad swathes of vacant land.
The jiggling bike and rather thin-edged basket caused the camera to
droop
, and you can see it being repositioned a few times.
If a camel uses the fat inside the hump, the hump will become limp and
droop
down.
They plod along at a pace that can both raise the tension or
droop
the eyelids.
Bond prices surge on bad economic news and
droop
when the economy rallies.
The two
droop
functions are voltage as a function of reactive power and power as a function of frequency.
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