Droop vs Lower - What's the difference?
droop | lower |
(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
(low)
bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
(geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
to pull down
To reduce the height of
To depress as to direction
To make less elevated
To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
To bring down; to humble
(reflexive) (lower oneself ) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
To decrease in value, amount, etc.
As verbs the difference between droop and lower
is that droop is (lb) to sink or hang downward; to sag while lower is to let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down or lower can be .As a noun droop
is something which is limp or sagging;.As an adjective lower is
(low).As an adverb lower is
.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 ----lower
English
Etymology 1
From (low) +Adjective
(head)Antonyms
* (more low) higher * (bottom) upper * (older) upperAdverb
(head)Verb
(en verb)- lower a bucket into a well
- to lower a sail of a boat
- to lower a flag
- Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love / Down to a silent grave. .
- lower a fence or wall
- lower a chimney or turret
- lower the aim of a gun
- to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
- lower the temperature
- lower one's vitality
- lower distilled liquors
- lower one's pride
- I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
- lower the price of goods
- lower the interest rate
- The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.