droop

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To hang downward; to sag.

   On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry.

2. 2
   verb

   To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.

   Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.

3. 3
   verb

   To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.

   But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?

4. 4
   verb

   To allow to droop or sink.

   […] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground;

5. 5
   verb

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

   […] let us forth, / I never from thy side henceforth to stray, / Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind / Laborious, till day droop […]

6. 6
   noun

   A condition or posture of drooping.

   He walked with a discouraged droop.

7. 7
   adj

   Drooping; adroop.

   But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the droop-headed flowers all. / And hides the green hill in an April shroud :

8. 8
   noun

   a shape that sags

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.