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Droop (dr&oō_;p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] [Icel. dr&ū;pa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.] 1. 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.” Tennyson.
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I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.
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2. 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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I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage. Addison.
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3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. “Then day drooped.” Tennyson.
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Droop, v. t. To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold.
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Like to a withered vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.
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Droop, n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
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