Droop

Quick meaning: Droop is a verb meaning (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.

Meaning

(intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
2. (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
3. (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
4. (intransitive, figurative) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
5. Something which is limp or sagging.
6. A condition or posture of drooping.
7. (aviation) A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.

Example Sentences

On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry.

His head had drooped with his hair across his face.

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.

Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.

Word Forms

• droops
• drooping
• drooped

Synonyms for droop

Depending on context, synonyms include lop, swag, flag, loll, wilt, sag.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sag, wilt, swag, loll, flag, slouch.

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