The meaning of DROOP is to hang or incline downward. How to use droop in a sentence.

DROOP definition: 1. to bend or hang down heavily: 2. If your spirits (= feelings of happiness) droop, you start to…. Learn more.

Droop definition: to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.. See examples of DROOP used in a sentence.

droop (druːp) vb 1. to sag or allow to sag, as from weakness or exhaustion; hang down; sink 2. (intr) to be overcome by weariness; languish; flag

Definition of droop verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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.

Synonyms for DROOP: slack, slackness, sag, hang, looseness, laxity, laxness, limpness; Antonyms of DROOP: tension, rigidity, tightness, tenseness, tautness, rigidness, stiffen, distend

droop /drup/ v. to (cause to) sag, sink, or hang down, such as from exhaustion: [no object] The flowers drooped in the heat. [~ + object] an eagle drooping its wings.

The drooping effect is caused by water pressure dropping within plant cells. So how can branches droop as more water is being pumped in?

To droop is to limply or loosely hang downward. Have you ever seen the long, floppy ears of a basset hound hanging down? Those ears are drooping.