droops

Verb

droop (third-person singular simple present droops, present participle drooping, simple past and past participle drooped)

1. (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
   • On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry.1866, John Keegan Casey, “Maire My Girl”, in A Wreath of Shamrocks, Dublin: Robert S. McGee, page 20

   Synonyms:

   lop

2. (intransitive) 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.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
   • But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
4. (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
   • […] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground;1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
5. (figuratively, intransitive) 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 […]1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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