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"ref": "1866, John Keegan Casey, “Maire My Girl”, in A Wreath of Shamrocks, Dublin: Robert S. McGee, page 20",
"text": "On the brown harvest tree\nDroops the red cherry.",
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"ref": "1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12",
"text": "Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.",
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"text": "a. 1992, quote attributed to Sylvester Stallone\nI'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works."
}
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"To hang downward; to sag."
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"(intransitive) To hang downward; to sag."
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"roman": "sveždam",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "свеждам"
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"roman": "dīchuí",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "低垂"
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"roman": "xiàchuí",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "下垂"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "roikkua"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "tomber"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "s’affaisser"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "durchhängen"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "pendere"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "ви́си"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "raupeka"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
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"note": "of eyes when sleepy",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "konewha"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "kōnewhanewha"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "tāngange"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "pītawitawi"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "hō"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "whakatauweweru"
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"_dis1": "78 5 1 5 12",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "svisátʹ",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "свиса́ть"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "sloka"
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"ref": "1676, Thomas Hobbes, transl., Homer’s Iliads in English, London: William Crook, Book 18, p. 289",
"text": "The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all\nThe Vines supported and from drooping staid\nWith silver Props, that down they could not fall […]",
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{
"ref": "1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285",
"text": "Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.",
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"ref": "2010, john g rees, Halocline",
"text": "His head had drooped with his hair across his face.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2012, Howie Carr, Hard Knocks",
"text": "She was trying to hang in, but her chin was drooping onto her chest.",
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"To slowly become limp; to bend gradually."
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"(intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually."
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "velki"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "kuihtua"
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"_dis1": "2 95 1 0 2",
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"word": "nuukahtaa"
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "nuupahtaa"
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "nachgeben"
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"_dis1": "2 95 1 0 2",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "erschlaffen"
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{
"_dis1": "2 95 1 0 2",
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "ermatten"
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{
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"word": "abschlaffen"
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"_dis1": "2 95 1 0 2",
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "schwinden"
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"_dis1": "2 95 1 0 2",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "welken"
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"_dis1": "2 95 1 0 2",
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "návedne",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "на́ведне"
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"roman": "sklonjatʹsja",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "склоняться"
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"ref": "1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, London: Jacob Tonson, XII, p. 17",
"text": "Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign,\nWhat wonder if the kindly beams he shed\nReviv’d the drooping Arts again […]",
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"sense": "to lose all enthusiasm or happiness",
"word": "väsähtää"
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"_dis1": "1 2 93 1 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to lose all enthusiasm or happiness",
"word": "parohea"
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"_dis1": "1 2 93 1 2",
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"roman": "pádatʹ duxom",
"sense": "to lose all enthusiasm or happiness",
"word": "па́дать духом"
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"text": "1892, Arthur Christopher Benson, “Knapweed” in Le Cahier Jaune: Poems, Eton: privately printed, p. 62,\nDown in the mire he droops his head;\nForgotten, not forgiven."
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "униние"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a condition or posture of drooping",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "pokleslost"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a condition or posture of drooping",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skleslost"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a condition or posture of drooping",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zplihlost"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "unynije",
"sense": "a condition or posture of drooping",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "уныние"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "aviation: a hinged portion of the leading edge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bec"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"droop"
],
"word": "droop"
}
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