See droop in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.",
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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.",
"type": "quote"
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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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"(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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"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",
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "roikkua"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "tomber"
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{
"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "s’affaisser"
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{
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "durchhängen"
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"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "herabhängen"
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
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"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "heruntersinken"
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{
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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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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "raupeka"
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{
"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "tatao"
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"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
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"note": "of eyes when sleepy",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "konewha"
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"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
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"note": "of eyes when sleepy",
"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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"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "pītawitawi"
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"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "hō"
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{
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"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "whakatauweweru"
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"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "droupen"
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{
"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "bayılmak",
"sense": "to sink or hang downward; to sag",
"word": "بایلمق"
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"_dis1": "78 3 2 5 12",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"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": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
"text": "Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;\nWhile night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.",
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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 […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth[…].",
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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.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2010, john g rees, Halocline:",
"text": "His head had drooped with his hair across his face.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Howie Carr, Hard Knocks:",
"text": "She was trying to hang in, but her chin was drooping onto her chest.",
"type": "quote"
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"(intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually."
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"word": "отслабвам"
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"word": "клюмвам"
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
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"word": "sklánět se"
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"word": "ohýbat se"
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"word": "svěšovat se"
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "velki"
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"_dis1": "2 96 1 0 2",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "kuihtua"
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{
"_dis1": "2 96 1 0 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "nuukahtaa"
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{
"_dis1": "2 96 1 0 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "nuupahtaa"
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"_dis1": "2 96 1 0 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "nachgeben"
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{
"_dis1": "2 96 1 0 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "erschlaffen"
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"_dis1": "2 96 1 0 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "ermatten"
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"_dis1": "2 96 1 0 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "abschlaffen"
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"_dis1": "2 96 1 0 2",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "schwinden"
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{
"_dis1": "2 96 1 0 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "welken"
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"_dis1": "2 96 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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"_dis1": "2 96 1 0 2",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sklonjatʹsja",
"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
"word": "склоняться"
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"ref": "c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:",
"text": "But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?",
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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 […]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1711, [Jonathan Swift], Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: […] John Morphew […], published 1711, →OCLC, page 284:",
"text": "I saw him accidentally once or twice about 10 Days before he died, and observed he began very much to Droop and Languish […]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 5:",
"text": "I’ll animate the Soldier’s drooping Courage,\nWith Love of Freedom, and Contempt of Life.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XIV, page 22:",
"text": "And I should tell him all my pain,\nAnd how my life had droop’d of late,\nAnd he should sorrow o’er my state\nAnd marvel what possess’d my brain; […]",
"type": "quote"
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"_dis1": "3 2 92 2 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "univam",
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"word": "унивам"
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"sense": "to lose all enthusiasm or happiness",
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"_dis1": "3 2 92 2 2",
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"sense": "to lose all enthusiasm or happiness",
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"word": "klesat na duchu"
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"_dis1": "3 2 92 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lose all enthusiasm or happiness",
"word": "väsähtää"
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"_dis1": "3 2 92 2 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to lose all enthusiasm or happiness",
"word": "parohea"
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"_dis1": "3 2 92 2 2",
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"sense": "to lose all enthusiasm or happiness",
"word": "droupen"
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"_dis1": "3 2 92 2 2",
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"roman": "pádatʹ duxom",
"sense": "to lose all enthusiasm or happiness",
"word": "па́дать духом"
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"_dis1": "3 2 92 2 2",
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"roman": "unyvatʹ",
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"ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:",
"text": "[…] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine\nThat droops his sapless branches to the ground;",
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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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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 175-178:",
"text": "[…] let us forth,\nI never from thy side henceforth to stray,\nWherere our days work lies, though now enjoind\nLaborious, till day droop […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 46:",
"text": "[…] and now when day\nDroop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those\nSix hundred maidens clad in purest white […]",
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"sense": "a condition or posture of drooping",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to slowly become limp; to bend gradually",
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"code": "de",
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"roman": "návedne",
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