drooping : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drooping	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for drooping
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drooping adj weak from exhaustion Synonym(s): drooping, flagging hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) Synonym(s): drooping, droopy, sagging having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" Synonym(s): cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping
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.