Droop
Droop (drop) , intransitive verb
[Icelandic drūpa; akin to English drop. See Drop.]
1.
To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.
The purple flowers droop.
Above her drooped a lamp.
I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
2.
To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
3.
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
Then day drooped.
Droop , transitive verb
To let droop or sink. [Rare] — M. Arnold
Like to a withered vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
Droop , noun
A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.