droop : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: droop	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for droop
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
droop n a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat" Synonym(s): sag, droop v droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness Synonym(s): sag, droop, swag, flag hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled" Synonym(s): droop, loll become limp; "The flowers wilted" Synonym(s): wilt, droop
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Droop \Droop\, v. t. To let droop or sink. [R.] --M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Droop \Droop\, n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Droop \Droop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drooped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drooping}.] [Icel. dr[?]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. [bd]The purple flowers droop.[b8] [bd]Above her drooped a lamp.[b8] --Tennyson. 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. [bd]Then day drooped.[b8] --Tennyson.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Droop, WV Zip code(s): 24946