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2 definitions found 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 ``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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: drooping adj 1: weak from exhaustion [syn: {flagging}] 2: hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) [syn: {droopy}, {sagging}] 3: (biology) having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn: {cernuous}, {nodding}, {pendulous}]
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