Definitions of droop [drup]

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Definition of 'droop'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) droop
to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from exhaustion or lack of support.

2. droop
to fall into a weakened or disspirited state; flag; fade.

3. droop
to descend; sink.

4. (v.t.) droop
to let sink or drop:
an eagle drooping its wings.

5. (n.) droop
a sagging, sinking, bending, or hanging down, as from exhaustion.

Etymology: (1300–50; ME drupen,drowpen < ON drūpa; akin to drop)

Definition of 'droop'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) sag, droop
a shape that sags
"there was a sag in the chair seat"

2. (verb) sag, droop, swag, flag
droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

3. (verb) droop, loll
hang loosely or laxly
"His tongue lolled"

4. (verb) wilt, droop
become limp
"The flowers wilted"

Definition of 'droop'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) droop
a drooping; as, a droop of the eye

2. (verb) droop
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

3. (verb) droop
to grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped

4. (verb) droop
to proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline

5. (verb) droop
to let droop or sink

Translation of 'droop'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to (cause to) hang down The willows drooped over the pond.
Afrikaans: hang	Arabic: يَتَدَلّى	Bulgarian: свеждам
Brazilian: pender	Czech: sklánět se	German: herabhängen
Danish: hænge ned	Greek: κρέμομαι, γέρνω	Spanish: inclinarse, caerse
Estonian: alla painutama, ripnema	Farsi: خم شدن	Finnish: roikkua
French: (se) pencher	Hebrew: לִהיוֹת תָּלוּי בְּרִפיוֹ	Hindi: लटकना
Croatian: objesiti se	Hungarian: lekonyul	Indonesian: merunduk
Icelandic: drúpa, hanga niður	Italian: piegarsi	Japanese: たれる
Korean: 축 늘어지다	Lithuanian: (nu)svirti, nusverti	Latvian: nokarāties; nokārt (galvu
Malay: merunduk	Dutch: neerhangen	Norwegian: henge slapt ned
Polish: opadać	Persian: خم شدن	Pashto: كږيدل
Portuguese: pender	Romanian: a atârna	Russian: склоняться
Slovak: skláňať sa	Slovenian: viseti	Serbian: pognuti se
Swedish: hänga [ner]	Thai: ห้อยต่ำ	Turkish: eğ(il)mek, sark(ıt)mak
Taiwanese: 下垂，使下垂	Ukrainian: никнути	Urdu: لٹکنا یا لٹکانا
Vietnamese: ngả xuống	Chinese: 下垂
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