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DROOPS
Verb
droops
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of droop
Source: Wiktionary
DROOP
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
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