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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.

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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. n:11/v:89 v. hang loosely or laxly