English Dictionary

droop

/ˈdɹuːp/

verb

(intransitive) To hang downward; to sag. / (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. / (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.

The flowers began to droop after a week without water.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.

On the brown harvest tree

On the brown harvest tree Droops the red cherry.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.

But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?

意味（4）

(transitive) To allow to droop or sink.

[…] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine

[…] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground;

意味（5）

To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.

[…] let us forth,

I never from thy side henceforth to stray,

Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind

[…] let us forth, I never from thy side henceforth to stray, Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind Laborious, till day droop […]