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Droop synonyms
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sag
To lose vigor, firmness, or resilience:
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  1. To lose vigor, firmness, or resilience:
  2. To hang down unevenly or loosely
  3. To wear one's pants with the waist below the hips, so that one's underwear is visible.
sink
To go beneath the surface of water, deep snow, soft ground, etc. so as to be partly or completely covered
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  1. To go beneath the surface of water, deep snow, soft ground, etc. so as to be partly or completely covered
  2. To cause to descend beneath the surface or to the bottom of a liquid:
  3. To force into the ground:
languish
To become downcast or pine away in longing:
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  1. To become downcast or pine away in longing:
  2. To put on an air of sentimental tenderness or wistful melancholy
  3. To be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor:
flop
To flap, strike, throw, or cause to drop noisily and clumsily
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  1. To flap, strike, throw, or cause to drop noisily and clumsily
  2. (Photoengraving) To turn (a film negative) face down before exposure to a metal plate, in order to create a desired mirror image
  3. With a flop
loll
To hang or droop laxly:
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  1. To hang or droop laxly:
  2. To hang in a relaxed manner; droop
  3. To move, stand, or recline in an indolent or relaxed manner.
lop
To hang down loosely
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  1. To hang down loosely
  2. To cut off a part or parts from; trim:
  3. (Usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
sag
To decline in price, value, sales, etc.
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  1. To decline in price, value, sales, etc.
  2. To cause to sag.
  3. To wear one's pants with the waist below the hips, so that one's underwear is visible.
slouch
To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat.
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  1. To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat.
  2. (Intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
  3. To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping posture.
wilt
To become limp or flaccid; droop:
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  1. To become limp or flaccid; droop:
  2. To feel or exhibit the effects of fatigue or exhaustion; weaken markedly:
  3. To cause to droop or lose freshness:
flag
To signal to stop:
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  1. To signal to stop:
  2. To signal with or as with a flag; esp., to signal (the driver of a vehicle) to stop
  3. To signal with or as if with a flag.
sag
To decline in price, value, sales, etc.
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  1. To decline in price, value, sales, etc.
  2. To lose vigor, firmness, or resilience:
  3. To wear one's pants with the waist below the hips, so that one's underwear is visible.
wilt
(Archaic) second-person singular simple present form of will
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  1. (Archaic) second-person singular simple present form of will
  2. To become limp or flaccid; droop:
  3. To cause to droop or lose freshness:
Find another word for droop. In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for droop, like: sag, sink, hang down, languish, hang, lean, weaken, flop, loll, lop and sag.

Sentence Examples

  • She must have let her shoulders droop, or maybe it was her trembling body.

  • and in more regular whorls than those of the Norway spruce; and, though the lower ones become bent to a horizontal position, they do not droop, so that the tree has a much less elegant appearance.

  • The boughs and their side-branches, as they increase in length, have a tendency to droop, the lower tier, even in large trees, often sweeping the ground - a habit that, with the jagged sprays, and broad, shadowy, wave-like foliage-masses, gives a peculiarly graceful and picturesque aspect to the Norway spruce.

  • The large branches droop, like those of the Norway spruce, but the sprays are much lighter and more slender, rendering the tree one of the most elegant of the conifers, especially when young.

  • The roots are prevented from fulfilling their function of taking up water and salts from the soil; the leaves accordingly droop, and the whole plant wilts and in bad attacks dies.

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