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# droop

«droop» in Mova's school dictionary: **To hang or bend down because of being weak, tired or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (droop, droops, drooped, drooping); noun (a droop)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To hang or bend down because of being weak, tired or without water, as in «The flowers drooped in the heat». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/#m1)

2) To become sad or lose energy, as in «His spirits drooped». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/#m2)

3) (noun) A downward bend or slope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, a plant without water droops because its cells lose water and it cannot stay stiff (a wilting plant). In stories, drooping eyelids show tiredness, a drooping head shows sadness. In art, it describes shapes that sag.

### examples

- The sunflowers drooped in the hot sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/#x1)
- Water the plant before it droops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/#x2)
- My eyelids drooped during the long film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/#x3)
- The puppy's ears droop when it is sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/#x4)
- His shoulders drooped when he heard the bad news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/#x5)
- The tent drooped after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/#x6)
- He gave it water, but still it drooped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Close words: «wilt» (for plants), «sag», «flop». Do not confuse with «drop» (fall down) or «drool» (spit coming from the mouth).

### In the corpora

- [«The dog's tail drooped» is not just about a tail moving down: it shows the dog is sad or tired.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «droop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.