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Definition of Drooping

1. Adjective. Weak from exhaustion.

2. Adjective. Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness).

3. Adjective. Having branches or flower heads that bend downward. "Lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"

Definition of Drooping

1. Verb. (present participle of droop) ¹

2. Noun. An instance of something drooping ¹

3. Adjective. That droops or droop. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Drooping

1. droop [v] - See also: droop

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drooping

droolingly drools drooly droome droomes droop drooped drooper droopers droopest

droopeth droopier droopiest droopily droopiness drooping (current term) drooping brome drooping juniper drooping lily sign droopingly

droopings droops droopy drop drop-back drop-backs drop-ball drop-dead drop-down drop-down list

Literary usage of Drooping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1874)
"In the former the drooping twigs and branches commence low down, and produce an effect at once ... Among drooping trees the common White Birch holds no mean ..."

2. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"V OF THE MAN WITH THE drooping LIDS MY mother and my father were sitting in their high-backed chairs on either side of the empty fireplace when we arrived, ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(SO) exciting the compassion of the soldiers, endeavoured to animate their drooping courage. Antoninus himself, who, in the rest of his life, ..."

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