droop

droop is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. 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.
2. intransitive verb. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
3. intransitive verb. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
4. transitive verb. To let droop or sink.
5. noun. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
6. noun. a shape that sags

   "there was a sag in the chair seat"

   Synonyms: sag

7. verb. become limp

   "The flowers wilted"

   Synonyms: wilt

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

   Synonyms: flag, sag, swag

9. verb. hang loosely or laxly

   "His tongue lolled"

   Synonyms: loll

Synonyms

sag, wilt, flag, swag, loll

Common word forms

droops, drooped, drooper, drooping

Words from these letters

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