What does "droop" mean?
Droop: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "Then day drooped." Tennyson.
- 3.To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.
- 4.A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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