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Droop

//ˈdɹuːp// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Drooping; adroop. archaic

    "But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the droop-headed flowers all. / And hides the green hill in an April shroud :"

Noun
  1. 1
    Something which is limp or sagging.
  2. 2
    a shape that sags wordnet
  3. 3
    A condition or posture of drooping.

    "He walked with a discouraged droop."

  4. 4
    A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
Verb
  1. 1
    To hang downward; to sag. intransitive

    "On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry."

  2. 2
    become limp wordnet
  3. 3
    To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. intransitive

    "Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse."

  4. 4
    droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness wordnet
  5. 5
    To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag. intransitive

    "But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?"

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  1. 6
    hang loosely or laxly wordnet
  2. 7
    To allow to droop or sink. transitive

    "[…] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground;"

  3. 8
    To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. figuratively, intransitive

    "[…] let us forth, / I never from thy side henceforth to stray, / Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind / Laborious, till day droop […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.

Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.

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