droop
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
droop (third-person singular simple present droops, present participle drooping, simple past and past participle drooped)
- (intransitive) To sink or hang downward; to sag.
- 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. – William Wordsworth
- 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 3, The Younger Set[1]:
- 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 ; … .
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
- (intransitive) To lose all enthusiasm or happiness.
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- Shakespeare
- Like to a withered vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
- Shakespeare
Translations [edit]
to sink or hang downward; to sag
to slowly become limp; to bend gradually
to lose all enthusiasm or happiness
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Noun [edit]
droop (plural droops)
- something which is limp or sagging; a condition or posture of drooping
- He walked with a discouraged droop.
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Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -oːp
Verb [edit]
droop
