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Definition of Droop
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.

To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.

To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.

To let droop or sink.

A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.


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Droop Quotations
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.
William Wordsworth

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
Eric Hoffer

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
Aisha Tyler

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.
Deborah Kerr

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Droop Translations
droop in Afrikaans is hang
droop in Dutch is hangen
droop in Finnish is riippua
droop in French is pendre
droop in German is ermatten
droop in Norwegian is henge ned






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