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verb

Droop v. t. To let droop or sink. (R.) "Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground."

Droop v. i. (past & past part. drooped; pres. part. drooping)

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." "I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish."

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."

To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "Then day drooped."

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Etymology of 'Drooping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drooping" Quotes from Famous Books

... ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day, Are scarce ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various

... answers his companion, who, save for his drooping fair moustache would better deserve to be called a 'pretty maid.' 'Mabel has a small party on, and I promised to drop in, we may ...

— Lippa • Beatrice Egerton

... to smother a laugh but did not succeed. This unexpected treat had wonderfully cheered his drooping spirits, and he laughed and chatted merrily as they walked to the Manse; but beneath the outward pleasure that the invitation gave him, there was running an undercurrent of deep happiness, for he knew that in the moment of the ...

— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh

... taking care of him, and he'll soon be all right," broke in Polly cheerily. "Do go with Jasper, Phronsie, do, dear." She took hold of the clasped hands, and smiled up into the drooping face. ...

— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney

... through the frames of the old men as for the first time in long years they stood side by side before the doorway about which as children they had played, and through which as boys they had rushed together. In Cynthia's drooping head plans were rapidly forming themselves, but she had time to be thankful that she did not know which was Reuben and which was Stephen—it saved her the anxiety of decision; instinctively she turned to the right, a small brown hand ...

— A Christmas Accident and Other Stories • Annie Eliot Trumbull

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