Droop

  

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Droop

Definition: Droop

Droop

Noun

1. A shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat".

Verb

1. Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness.

2. Hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled".

3. Become limp; "The flowers wilted".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "droop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Droop

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

The ratio of the quotient of the change in frequency AF and the normal frequency FN, to the quotient of the change in nominal power p-n of the rotating machines. Source: European Union. (references)
 A common occurrence in time-proportional controllers. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Droop

Synonyms: flag (v), loll (v), sag (v), swag (v), wilt (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Droop

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dejection

Verb: be dejected; Adjective: grieve; mourn; (lament); take on, give way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink.

Descent

Verb: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump.

Deterioration

Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse,Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

Disease

Verb: be ill; Adjective: ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp.

Fatigue

Verb: be fatigued; Adjective: yawn; (get sleepy); droop, sink, flag; lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb.

Pain

Grieve; mourn; (lament); yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink; give way; despair; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart; (inflict pain).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Droop

English words defined with "droop": action plantDroopedflaghang, humble plantlive-and-dieMimosa pudicasag, sensitive plant, shame plant, swagtouch-me-not. (references)
Specialty definitions using "droop": Nose-jewels. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Droop" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Manx (drupe).

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Modern Usage: Droop

DomainUsage

Screenplays

When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude (Next Stop Wonderland; writing credit: Brad Anderson; Lyn Vaus)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Droop

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Droop

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

They let their long lances droop to a level. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Droop
 

"Pink flowers" by Michelle Kwajafa
Commentary: "Pink flowers droop along a wall."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Droop

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

A cystocele (SIS-tuh-seal) occurs when the wall between a woman's bladder and her vagina weakens and lets the bladder droop into the vagina. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Droop

"Droop" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 54.69% of the time. "Droop" is used about 64 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)54.69%3558,339
Noun (singular)31.25%2078,262
Lexical Verb (base form)12.5%8124,375
Noun (proper)1.56%1339,140
                    Total100.00%64N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Droop


1. Droop, WV
Zip Code(s): 24946
Country: USA

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Expressions: Droop

Expressions using "droop": droop restrainer droop stop. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "droop": droop-stockinged.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Droop

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

droop young

27

droop

14

droop lyrics young

7

droop mountain

4

brewer droop

3

droop generator

2
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Modern Translation: Droop

Language Translations for "droop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

hang (hang). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

zymtohem, venitet (dwindle, evanesce, fade, fade away, pine away, wane), varje (gallows, hanging), varet (drape, fall, hang, hinge, lop), ulen, trishtohem, përkulje (bend, Bob, bow, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, curvature, flection, flex, flexion, flexure, incurvation, incurvature, inflection, reverence, sag, stoop, warp), ligështohem (fail, faint, falter, weaken), lëshohen, lëshim (coast, concession, discharge, drop, emission, failure, flaccidity, flagging, funk, issuance, issue, launch, launching, laxity, laxness, megrims, profligacy, release, relief, sag, tolerance). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قنط (despair, despond, dismay, irritation), ‏وهن (asthenia, attenuate, attenuation, damp, dampen, debilitate, debility, decay, discouragement, distemper, enervate, enfeeble, extenuate, feebleness, imitators, infirmity, invalidate, languish, languishment, languor, pall, relax, sap, shrivel, sickliness, thin, weak spot, weaken, weaklings), ‏غرب (relegate, set, westernize), ‏تذلل (cringe, cringing, draggle, drooping, grovel, lick his boots, obsequiousness, subservience), ‏تخاذل, ‏تدلى (bag, dangle, fall, flag, flow, loll, lop, sag, suspend, swing), ‏تدل (dangle), ‏زبل, ‏ذابل متدلي, ‏خفض الجناحين, ‏خفض الرأس, ‏إنحنى (bend, bend over, bent, bow, crouch, curve, dip, double up, duck, hunch, incline, low bow, recline, sag, stoop, tip), ‏إبتئس (ache). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

униние (damp, dejection, despond, despondency, doldrums, dullness, mopes, sadness), свеждане (reduction, relegation), свеждам (cast down, reduce, relegate), клюмване, клюмвам (flag, sag, wilt), навеждам (bow, drop, hang, incline, lean, lour, lower, set, tilt, vail), провисвам (hang down), посървам (fade, wither), повяхвам (decay, dim, fade, wither), повисвам (hang, hang down, suspend). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

耷拉, (almost, bend down, bequeath, dangle, factory, hand down, nearly, to approach, to hang). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vadnout (fade, flag, run to seed, wilt, wither), splihle viset, sklánìt se (bow, go down, verge). (various references)

   

Danish

  

hænge (hang). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hangen (hang). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

pendi (hang). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

hanga (hang). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پژمرده شدن (Languish, Miff, Quail), سستی (Inaction, Indolence, Insecurity, Lassitude, Sloth), افکندن (Cast, Give, Shed, Throw, Upend), افسرده ومایوس شدن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

riippuvuus kuormituksesta, riippua (be suspended from, depend, hang, hang loose), pysyvä poikkeama, painua (collapse, drop, settle, sink, submerge), olla riipuksissa (hang down), nuokkua (hang down, nod). (various references)

   

French

  

pendre, affaissement (dropping). (various references)

   

German

  

ermatten (become exhausted, exhaust, get tired, languish, tire, to droop, to languish). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κρέμαμαι (dangle, hang, loll, lop, pend), στατισμός, μαραίνομαι (fade, languish, wilt, wither), χαμηλώνω (abase, lower, reduce), φθίνω (consume away, decay, descend, dwindle, pine, tabefy, wilt, wither), ?κρέμασμα?. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ליפול (drop, fall, fall down, turn out), להשתופף (incline), להרכין (bend, bow, incline, stoop, tilt), שפיפה (bending, crouching, drooping, stoop), שחיחה (drooping), נבילה (drooping, fading, wilting, withering). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lekonyulás, lejtés (batter, downhill, gradient, hang, inclination, pitching, rake, slope, swing), lejtőirány, lehunyás, lehajtás (inclination), kedvetlenség (dejectedness, dispiritedness, grumpiness, listlessness), hervadás (drooping, wilt, wilting, withering), elernyedés (decline, enervation, relaxation), csökkenés (abatement, attenuation, decline, decrease, diminution, easement, go down, lessening, letdown, loss, reduce, reduction, remission, shrinkage, shrinking, subsidence, waste), bágyadtság (enervation, languor, lassitude). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

hanga (hang). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menunduk. (various references)

   

Irish

  

sleabhaic (slouch). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pendere (be inclined, be pending, flag, hang, hang over, lean, lop, slant, slope, tend, tip). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

垂れる (to, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to hang, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たれさげる (to droop, to hang, to lower), たれる (to confer, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to give, to hang, to leave behind, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag, to trickle), しなだれる (to droop), なえる (to be lame, to droop, to wither), うちしおれる (to be depressed, to droop). (various references)

   

Manx

  

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), shymley (consume, decline, failing, languish, languishing, pine, pining), lhiggey sheese (lower), lhiggey neose (deposit, drop, shoot down), goll my-laaee. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

henge ned, henge (hang). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oopdray.(various references)

   

Polish

  

wisieć (hang). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

inclinação (addiction, appetite, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, disposal, disposition, downhill, falling, fellow feeling, fondness, inclination, lean, leaning, like, liking, list, lopsidedness, motion, partiality, penchant, proclivity, propensity, rake, ramp, recession, sag, slant, slope, stomach, tendency, tip, trend, vocation, will). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

slãbiciune (debility, decrepitude, defect, failing, faintness, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, infirmity, languor, leanness, liking, propensity, shortcoming, tenuity, weakness), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), se veşteji (fade, wilt, wither), se ofili (fade, flag, languish, peak and pine, pine, waste away), moleşire (effeminacy, emasculation, enervation, flagging), lãsa în jos (couch, dip, down, draw, hang, lower), atîrna (hang), atârna în jos, asfinţi (decline, die, set, sink), apune (decline, die, disappear, fade, go down, set, sink), aplecare (bend, bending, cast, crouch, inclination, leaning, stoop), apleca capul, amurgi (dim, fade, get dark), agåţa (hang), a-şi pierde curajul (faint). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сутулость (slouch), свисать (dangle, hang down, slouch, trail), наклонять (bend, cant, decline, incline, lean, slants, slope, stoop, tilt, tilting, tip, vail), поникать, понижение (decrease, degradation, demotion, falling, recession, subsidence), изнемогать, изнеможение (exhaustion). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

aom (bend, incline, yield). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

srozati se (lower, slump, vulgarize), pognutost (stoop), oklembesiti (lop), malaksati (flag, grow feeble, languish, let up), klonuti (flag, languish, quail). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

colgar (append, dangle, halter, hang, hang down, hang out, hang up, loll, loll out, put up, ring off, sag, sling, string up, top). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

anga (hang). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sloka (flag, slouch, wilt). (various references)

   

Thai

  

อ่อนแอ (effete, enfeebled, epicene, namby-pamby, rickety, silly), ห่อเหี่ยว. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), solmak (be discolored, be discoloured, change colour, die, die away, die down, discolor, discolour, fade, pale, wane, wear, wear away, whiten, wilt, wither, wither up), sarkmak (bag, beetle, dangle, drape, flag, hang, hang down, hang out, impend, lean out, lie over, lop, overhang, prolapse, sag, slouch), sarkma (hang, hanging, prolapse, prolapsus, ptosis, sag, slouch), sarkıtmak (dangle, hang, hang down, lop, slouch, swing), kuvvetten düşmek (go to seed, lose one's power, run to seed), hali kalmamak (be exhausted, faint, feel faint, languish), eğmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant, contort, curve, decline, flex, incline, incurve, inflect, ply, slant, spring, stoop, sway, tilt, warp), eğilmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant over, curve, dip, double, double up, duck, fall down, hang, hang over, incline, lean, sag, spring, stoop, strain, tilt, tip, warp, yield), eğilme (bending, buckle, curvature, dip, flexure, hunch, inclination, inflection, inflexion, lean, proneness, spring, stoop, tilt, tip), cesaretini kaybetme, asilmak (hang), ümidini yitirmek, ümidi kırılma. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сутулість (slouch, stoop), слабнути (attenuate, break up, fail, faint, let up, tone down), опускатися (fall, lower, sink), нахилятися (bend, bow, cant, decline, duck, lean, nod, slant, stoop, tilt, tip, tip up), нахиляти (cant, incline, lean, slant, slope, stoop, tilt, tip, tip up), нахил (bend, bent, cant, declination, hang, inclination, incline, lurch, notion, obliqueness, obliquity, palate, ply, proclivity, propensity, slope, tilt, tip), знемога (prostration, swelter). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

dáng rũ xuống vẻ ủ rũ, dáng gục xuống, dáng cuối xuống, sự chán nản sự hạ giọng. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

pendrymu (drowse), llaesu (flag, loosen, relax, slacken). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Droop

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

elanguerunt, elangui, elanguit, pendere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Droop

Derivations

Words beginning with "droop": drooped, droopier, droopiest, droopily, drooping, droopingly, droops, droopy. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Droop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doooom, dooooo, doop, dopp, doup, dreap, dreo, driom, driop, dro, droc, droe, Droi, droo, droob, drood, droog, drook, droom, droon, dropp, droup, dru, Drukov, drup, dwop, kroop, Oropou. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Droop"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "droop" (pronounced druw"p)
4d r uw" pdrupe.
3-r uw" pcroup, group, intergroup, regroup, troop, troupe.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Droop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-o-o-p-r"

-1 letter: door, dorp, drop, odor, ordo, pood, poor, prod, rood.

-2 letters: dor, pod, pro, rod.

-3 letters: do, od, op, or.

 Words containing the letters "d-o-o-p-r"
 

+1 letter: droops, droopy, uropod.

 

+2 letters: drooped, dropout, outdrop, pandoor, parodoi, parodos, proofed, prosody, spoored, sporoid, torpedo, trooped, uropods.

 

+3 letters: coopered, disproof, doorpost, doorstep, doorstop, downpour, droopier, droopily, drooping, dropouts, dropshot, dropwort, groupoid, hospodar, iodophor, mopboard, myriopod, odograph, outdrops, pandoors, parotoid, pereopod, phoronid, podocarp, podomere, pogromed, porkwood, prodrome, profound, prologed, promoted, proponed, proposed, propound, prosodic, protopod, protoxid, provoked, pteropod, rhizopod, sauropod, scrooped, snowdrop, theropod, torpedos, trapdoor, uprooted, uropodal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Cities
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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