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Definition: Droop |
DroopNoun1. A shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat". Verb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Synonyms: DroopSynonyms: flag (v), loll (v), sag (v), swag (v), wilt (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Droop |
| English words defined with "droop": action plant ♦ Drooped ♦ flag ♦ hang, humble plant ♦ live-and-die ♦ Mimosa pudica ♦ sag, sensitive plant, shame plant, swag ♦ touch-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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & 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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| "Pink flowers" by Michelle Kwajafa Commentary: "Pink flowers droop along a wall." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 54.69% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (singular) | 31.25% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 64 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Droop, WV |
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
droop young | 27 |
droop | 14 |
droop lyrics young | 7 |
droop mountain | 4 |
brewer droop | 3 |
droop generator | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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, 垂 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | elanguerunt, elangui, elanguit, pendere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "droop": drooped, droopier, droopiest, droopily, drooping, droopingly, droops, droopy. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "droop" (pronounced druw"p) |
| 4 | d r uw" p | drupe. |
| 3 | -r uw" p | croup, group, intergroup, regroup, troop, troupe. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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