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droop


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

2. 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." (Addison)

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

Origin: Icel. Drpa; akin to E. Drop. See Drop.

Source: Websters Dictionary