## Meanings
1. To hang or bend downward, usually because of weakness or tiredness.
2. To lose energy, enthusiasm, or spirits.
3. A drooping position or shape.

## Examples
- The flowers began to droop in the afternoon heat.
- By midnight everyone's spirits had begun to droop.
- He walked with a tired droop in his shoulders.

## Derived Forms
- adroop
- droopage
- drooper

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: droupen
- Root: drúpa
- Root: *drūpaną
- Root: *dʰrewb-

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.

## AI Etymology
Droop is inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop. In current use, the main senses are “To hang or bend downward, usually because of weakness or tiredness” and “To lose energy, enthusiasm, or spirits”.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction

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