droop

1. (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.Examples: "On the brown harvest tree Droops the red cherry."; "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."; "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."Synonyms: lopintransitive

2. (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.Examples: "Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse."; "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[…]."intransitive

3. (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.Examples: "But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?"; "Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign, What wonder if the kindly beams he shed Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […]"; "I saw him accidentally once or twice about 10 Days before he died, and observed he began very much to Droop and Languish […]"intransitive

4. (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.Examples: "[…] 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, Down in the mire he droops his head; Forgotten, not forgiven."transitive