Thesaurus: droop
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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Definitions
- 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.
- v. i. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
- v. i. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- v. t. To let droop or sink.
- n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
- n. a shape that sags
- v. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- v. hang loosely or laxly
- v. become limp
- n:11/v:89 v. hang loosely or laxly