droop

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. v. i. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. Source: opted

4. v. t. To let droop or sink. Source: opted

5. n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye. Source: opted

6. n. a shape that sags Source: wordnet

7. v. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness Source: wordnet

8. v. hang loosely or laxly Source: wordnet

9. v. become limp Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

11. To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold.Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to theground. Shak. Source: adambom

12. n:11/v:89 v. hang loosely or laxly Source: ecdict

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