droop

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To hang or bend downward, usually because of weakness or tiredness.

   The flowers began to droop in the afternoon heat.

2. 2
   verb

   To lose energy, enthusiasm, or spirits.

   By midnight everyone's spirits had begun to droop.

3. 3
   noun

   A drooping position or shape.

   He walked with a tired droop in his shoulders.

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.

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