different between drooped vs droop

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?u?pt/
• Rhymes: -u?pt

Adjective

drooped (not comparable)

1. Lacking stiffness.

Related terms

• droop
• droopy

Translations

Verb

drooped

1. simple past tense and past participle of droop

English

Etymology

From Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?pan?, *drup?n? (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewb- (“to drip, drop”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?p, IPA^(key): /?d?u?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p
• Homophone: drupe

Verb

droop (third-person singular simple present droops, present participle drooping, simple past and past participle drooped)

1. (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
   • 1866, John Keegan Casey, “Maire My Girl” in A Wreath of Shamrocks, Dublin: Robert S. McGee, p. 20,^[1]

     On the brown harvest tree

     Droops the red cherry.

   • a. 1992, quote attributed to Sylvester Stallone

     I'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.

2. (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 2,^[2]

     Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;

     While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.

   • 1676, Thomas Hobbes (translator), Homer’s Iliads in English, London: William Crook, Book 18, p. 289,^[3]

     The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all

     The Vines supported and from drooping staid

     With silver Props, that down they could not fall […]

   • 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 […].
3. (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 1,^[4]

     But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?

   • 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, London: Jacob Tonson, XII, p. 17,^[5]

     Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign,

     What wonder if the kindly beams he shed

     Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […]

   • 1711, Jonathan Swift, “The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions” in Miscellanies, London: John Morphew, p. 284,^[6]

     I saw him accidentally once or twice about 10 Days before he died, and observed he began very much to Droop and Languish […]

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, London: J. Tonson, Act I, Scene 2, p. 5,^[7]

     I’ll animate the Soldier’s drooping Courage,

     With Love of Freedom, and Contempt of Life.

4. (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act II, Scene 5,^[8]

     […] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine

     That droops his sapless branches to the ground;

   • 1892, Arthur Christopher Benson, “Knapweed” in Le Cahier Jaune: Poems, Eton: privately printed, p. 62,^[9]

     Down in the mire he droops his head;

     Forgotten, not forgiven.

5. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11, lines 175-178,^[10]

     […] let us forth,

     I never from thy side henceforth to stray,

     Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind

     Laborious, till day droop […]

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “The Princess” in The Princess; a Medley, London: Edward Moxon, p. 46,^[11]

     […] and now when day

     Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those

     Six hundred maidens clad in purest white […]

Derived terms

• droopage

Translations

Noun

droop (plural droops)

1. Something which is limp or sagging.
2. A condition or posture of drooping.

3. (aviation) A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.

Coordinate terms

(part of aeroplane wing):

• slat

Translations

Derived terms

• brewer's droop
• droop nose
• droop snoot

Related terms

• drooped
• drooping
• droopy

References

• droop at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Podor

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?p

Verb

droop

1. singular past indicative of druipen