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drooped

/dɹuːpt/

drooped adjective: lacking stiffness. Also the simple past and past participle of droop.

Adjective

drooped (not comparable)

  1. Lacking stiffness.
    • She was too young to realize the full horror of her position, and ere long she had fallen asleep, curled up like a kitten, with the silken, tangled curls of her hair blown about her pretty, drooped face […]1883, Adah M. Howard, Irene Gray's Legacy, page 6

Also used as

drooped is also the simple past and past participle of droop.

Words that rhyme with drooped

Questions about drooped

What does drooped mean?
Drooped means lacking stiffness.
What part of speech is drooped?
Drooped is an adjective.
How do you pronounce drooped?
Drooped is pronounced /dɹuːpt/.

Words near drooped in the dictionary

  1. drooly
  2. droop
  3. droop snoot
  4. droop snoots
  5. droopage
  6. drooped
  7. drooper
  8. droopers
  9. droopest
  10. droopeth
  11. droopier

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