vi. 下垂, 消沉

vt. 使下垂

n. 低垂, 消沉

[电] 下降

Droop \Droop\, v. t.
To let droop or sink. [R.] --M. Arnold.

Like to a withered vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground. --Shak.


Droop \Droop\, n.
A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.


Droop \Droop\ (dr[=oo]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drooped}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Drooping}.] [Icel. dr[=u]pa; akin to E. drop. See
{Drop}.]
1. 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. ``The purple
flowers droop.'' ``Above her drooped a lamp.'' --Tennyson.

I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he
began very much to droop and languish. --Swift.

2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like
causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as,
her spirits drooped.

I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
--Addison.

3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. ``Then
day drooped.'' --Tennyson.