Definition of droop

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Droop (v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped..

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Droopingly :: Droopingly (adv.) In a drooping manner.
Pining :: Pining (a.) Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing..
Wilt :: Wilt (v. i.) To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed when exposed to drought, or to great heat in a dry day, or when separated from its root; to droop;. to wither..
Sag :: Sag (v. i.) To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
Chapfallen :: Chapfallen (a.) Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen..
Languish :: Languish (v. i.) To cause to droop or pine.
Valance :: Valance (n.) The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
Droop :: Droop (v. t.) To let droop or sink.
Halesia :: Halesia (n.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels..
Droop :: Droop (n.) A drooping; as, a droop of the eye..
Ptosis :: Ptosis (n.) Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle..
Cernuous :: Cernuous (a.) Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss..
Hound :: Hound (n.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc..
Flag :: Flag (v. i.) To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags..
Lank :: Lank (superl.) Languid; drooping.
Flag :: Flag (v. t.) To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings..
Drooped :: Drooped (imp. & p. p.) of Droo.
Pine :: Pine (v. i.) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away..
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame..
Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped..
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