Droop /(dro͡op)/

imp. & p. p. Drooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping

1. To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.

   I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.

2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.

   I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.

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

1. To let droop or sink. [R.]

   Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground.

1. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.