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Definition of 'droop'Verb
( en-verb)
(lb) To sink or hang downward; to sag.
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- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
* (Sylvester Stallone) (1946-)
- I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop , the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
(lb) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
(lb) To lose all enthusiasm or happiness.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
- I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
- I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
(lb) To allow to droop or sink.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
- Like to a withered vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
* (1809-1892)
- when day drooped
Noun
( en-noun)
something which is limp or sagging;
a condition or posture of drooping
- He walked with a discouraged droop .
Related terms
* drooped
* drooping
* droopy
Derived terms
* brewer's droop
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