Thesaurus: droop

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1. v. i. 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.
2. v. i. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
3. v. i. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
4. v. t. To let droop or sink.
5. n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
6. n. a shape that sags
7. v. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
8. v. hang loosely or laxly
9. v. become limp
10. 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. To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
11. To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold.Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to theground. Shak.
12. n:11/v:89 v. hang loosely or laxly