Droop vs Undrooping - What's the difference?
droop | undrooping |
(lb) To sink or hang downward; to sag.
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* (Sylvester Stallone) (1946-)
(lb) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
(lb) To lose all enthusiasm or happiness.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
* (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
(lb) To allow to droop or sink.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
* (1809-1892)
something which is limp or sagging;
a condition or posture of drooping
Not drooping.
*{{quote-book, year=1851, author=Sam G. Goodrich, title=Poems, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A good deed done hath memory's blest perfume,-- A day of self-forgetfulness, all given To holy charity, hath perennial bloom That goes, undrooping , up from earth to heaven. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1900, author=Emerson Hough, title=The Girl at the Halfway House, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Her eye was clear, her skin fresh, her shoulders undrooping . }}
As a verb droop
is (lb) to sink or hang downward; to sag.As a noun droop
is something which is limp or sagging;.As an adjective undrooping is
not drooping.droop
English
(wikipedia droop)Verb
(en verb)- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
- I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop , the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
- I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
- I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
- Like to a withered vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
- when day drooped
Noun
(en noun)- He walked with a discouraged droop .
Derived terms
* brewer's droop ----undrooping
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Adjective
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