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droop
/ˈdɹuːp/
verb 5noun 3adj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
below, discouraged, little, long, over
VERB + DROOP
eyes, head, heads, let, lets, sense, starting
DROOP + NOUN
stock
PREP.
down, with
Definitions
verb
1
To hang downward; to sag.
On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry.
Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
2
To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all / The Vines supported and from drooping staid / With silver Props, that down they could not fall […]
3
To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?
Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign, / What wonder if the kindly beams he shed / Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […]
4
To allow to droop or sink.
[…] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground;
1892, Arthur Christopher Benson, “Knapweed” in Le Cahier Jaune: Poems, Eton: privately printed, p. 62, Down in the mire he droops his head; Forgotten, not forgiven.
5
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
[…] let us forth, / I never from thy side henceforth to stray, / Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind / Laborious, till day droop […]
[…] and now when day / Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those / Six hundred maidens clad in purest white […]
noun
1
Something which is limp or sagging.
2
A condition or posture of drooping.
He walked with a discouraged droop.
3
A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
adj
1
Drooping; adroop.
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 :
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry.
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Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimne
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a. 1992, quote attributed to Sylvester Stallone 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, bu
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He walked with a discouraged droop.
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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 :
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Your head is starting to droop.
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