DROOP

sag, droop

(noun) a shape that sags; “there was a sag in the chair seat”

wilt, droop

(verb) become limp; “The flowers wilted”

sag, droop, swag, flag

(verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

droop, loll

(verb) hang loosely or laxly; “His tongue lolled”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

droop (third-person singular simple present droops, present participle drooping, simple past and past participle drooped)

(intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.

(intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.

(intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.

(transitive) To allow to droop or sink.

To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.

Noun

droop (plural droops)

Something which is limp or sagging

A condition or posture of drooping

Anagrams

• Podor

Source: Wiktionary

Droop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] Etym: [Icel. dr; 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. 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." Tennyson.

Droop, v. t.

Definition: To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.

Droop, n.

Definition: A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition