DROOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does droop mean? 

• DROOP (noun)
  The noun DROOP has 1 sense:

1. a shape that sags

  Familiarity information: DROOP used as a noun is very rare.

• DROOP (verb)
  The verb DROOP has 3 senses:

1. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

2. hang loosely or laxly

3. become limp

  Familiarity information: DROOP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shape that sags

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

droop; sag

Context example:

there was a sag in the chair seat

Hypernyms ("droop" is a kind of...):

depression; impression; imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing)

Derivation:

droop (become limp)

droop (droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness)

droop (hang loosely or laxly)

droopy (hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness))

• DROOP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they droop    ... he / she / it droops   
Past simple: drooped   
Past participle: drooped   
-ing form: drooping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

droop; flag; sag; swag

Hypernyms (to "droop" is one way to...):

drop; drop down; sink (fall or descend to a lower place or level)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "droop"):

slouch; slump (assume a drooping posture or carriage)

bag (hang loosely, like an empty bag)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

droop (a shape that sags)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hang loosely or laxly

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

droop; loll

Context example:

His tongue lolled

Hypernyms (to "droop" is one way to...):

dangle; drop; swing (hang freely)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

droop (a shape that sags)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become limp

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

droop; wilt

Context example:

The flowers wilted

Hypernyms (to "droop" is one way to...):

crumble; decay; dilapidate (fall into decay or ruin)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

droop (a shape that sags)

 Context examples 

I can see him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble man.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But she laughed weakly, and her head drooped again.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One was a woman, our client, drooping and faint, a handkerchief round her mouth.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was worn and haggard, and his handsome face drooped in lean exhaustion.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Bloodhound is a powerful, massive hound with a long muzzle, drooping ears, and loose, wrinkled skin.

(Bloodhound, NCI Thesaurus)

I felt its whole weight now; and I drooped beneath it, and I said in my heart that it could never be lightened.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The great head drooped more and more under its tree of horns, and the shambling trot grew weak and weaker.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He stopped suddenly, looking at the poor drooping figure on the bed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Injections in the face may also cause temporary drooping eyelids.

(Botox, NIH)

This pig breed is red-colored with partially drooping ears and is one of the most aggressive breeds of swine.

(Duroc Pig, NCI Thesaurus)