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词汇 droop
释义 droop
verb[ I ]
uk /druːp/ us /druːp/
to bend or hang down heavily: 下垂,下弯
The flowers were drooping in the heat.花朵在热浪中垂下了头。
I can see you're tired because your eyelids have started to droop.我能看出你累了,你的眼睛都快睁不开了。
If your spirits (= feelings of happiness) droop, you start to feel less happy and energetic.垂头丧气,沮丧
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hanging and suspending
be dripping with somethingidiom
cascade
dangle
dangle from something
dangly
drape
droopingly
droopy
flow
hang
hung
pendant
pendent
rehang
sag
saggy
sling
string
string someone up
suspend

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Disappointing yourself and others

Related words


drooping
droopy

droop | American Dictionary


droop
verb[ I ]
us/drup/
to bend or hang down:
The old woman sighed and pushed back a drooping strand of iron-gray hair.

droop | Business English


droop
verb[ I ]
 FINANCEuk /druːp/us
if prices, values, sales, etc. droop they gradually go down:
Since the beginning of the year, the shares have drooped.
The company's Cuba sales have drooped, partly because of rising costs and import difficulties.
droop
noun[ C ]
 FINANCEuk /druːp/us
a situation in which prices, values, sales, etc. gradually go down:
The firm yesterday reported a further droop in sales.

Examples of droop


droop
The voice, within a verse of generally drooping contours, rises a full octave span.
In most species, leaves or leaflets drooped first, then rolled or folded.
The participants talked about the loss of beauty with increasing age, as evinced by wrinkles and liver spots, drooping skin, hair-loss, fluctuating weight and changes in posture.
The upper eyelid was categorised as either normal or exhibiting ptosis (droop), and the presence or absence of bags under the eyes was also recorded.
Her face expresses no visible emotion, although the outer corners of her eyes droop with sadness.
Especially at first, you may have to keep reminding the patient to sit upright and take the food to his mouth, rather than letting his face droop towards his plate.
Apparently he wanted to give his drooping followers a stimulant, but it is only a stimulant, and one cannot live on stimulant very long.
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If he thinks that a drooping transferable rate will help us more with the official rate, he ought to think again.
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Let him exchange his drooping wand for a birch and play the rôle of wicked uncle for a while.
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We now see the limp wrist of the alliance drooping pathetically in the breeze of public misgiving about public disorder.
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On the other hand, spirits drooped, and in fact yielded nearly £500,000 less than in 1936.
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There was nothing in his speech to lift the drooping hearts and spirits of his own side, or to boost the morale of the country.
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He has duties which are varied and manifold—too varied and too manifold—and he may be anxious about having yet a further burden thrust upon his drooping shoulders.
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There are certain types of disease which are permanent types of disease, which are recognised by drooping hands and the conformation of the skull, and various other physical signs.
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A pilot who actuates an elevator input may find that the aircraft then droops or drops back to a position further toward the start position.
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