drooped; drooping; droops
1
: to hang or incline downward
2
: to sink gradually
3
: to become depressed or weakened : languish
: to let droop
Examples of droop in a Sentence
Verb
The flowers were drooping in the hot sun.
Her eyelids drooped as she grew tired.
The tree's branches drooped under the weight of the snow.
His spirits drooped when he didn't get the job.
Noun
tighten the line at the top of the banner so there won't be so much droop
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Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Signs of overwatering include drooping, wilting, or yellowing leaves.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
The lanyard on our neighbor’s flagpole clanks in the wind, the fraying stars and stripes
fluster and droop.
—Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
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Verb
The woman’s husband, a scrawny man in a shabby work uniform, smelling of sewage, drooped behind the gurney.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Signs of overwatering include drooping, wilting, or yellowing leaves.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
Most options can help with a mild to moderate droop—mine is extremely severe.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
The lanyard on our neighbor’s flagpole clanks in the wind, the fraying stars and stripes
fluster and droop.
—Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Droop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/droop. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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droop
1 of 2 verb1
: to sink, bend, or hang down
2
: to become depressed or weak
droopy
adjective
ˈdrü-pē
droop
2 of 2 noun
: the condition or appearance of drooping
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