Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive 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.
- 2intransitive verb
To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
- 3intransitive verb
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- 4transitive verb
To let droop or sink.
- 5noun
A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
- 6noun
a shape that sags
"there was a sag in the chair seat"
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- 7verb
become limp
"The flowers wilted"
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- 8verb
droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- 9verb
hang loosely or laxly
"His tongue lolled"
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