Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to droop
Participle: drooped
Gerund: drooping
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | droop |
| you | droop |
| he;she;it | droops |
| we | droop |
| you | droop |
| they | droop |
Perfect
| I | have drooped |
| you | have drooped |
| he;she;it | has drooped |
| we | have drooped |
| you | have drooped |
| they | have drooped |
Past
| I | drooped |
| you | drooped |
| he;she;it | drooped |
| we | drooped |
| you | drooped |
| they | drooped |
Pluperfect
| I | had drooped |
| you | had drooped |
| he;she;it | had drooped |
| we | had drooped |
| you | had drooped |
| they | had drooped |
Future
| I | will droop |
| you | will droop |
| he;she;it | will droop |
| we | will droop |
| you | will droop |
| they | will droop |
Future Perfect
| I | will have drooped |
| you | will have drooped |
| he;she;it | will have drooped |
| we | will have drooped |
| you | will have drooped |
| they | will have drooped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | droop |
| you | droop |
| he;she;it | droop |
| we | droop |
| you | droop |
| they | droop |
Perfect
| I | have drooped |
| you | have drooped |
| he;she;it | have drooped |
| we | have drooped |
| you | have drooped |
| they | have drooped |
Imperfect
| I | drooped |
| you | drooped |
| he;she;it | drooped |
| we | drooped |
| you | drooped |
| they | drooped |
Pluperfect
| I | had drooped |
| you | had drooped |
| he;she;it | had drooped |
| we | had drooped |
| you | had drooped |
| they | had drooped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would droop |
| you | would droop |
| he;she;it | would droop |
| we | would droop |
| you | would droop |
| they | would droop |
Perfect
| I | would have drooped |
| you | would have drooped |
| he;she;it | would have drooped |
| we | would have drooped |
| you | would have drooped |
| they | would have drooped |
Imperative
| you | droop |
| we | Let's droop |
| you | droop |
Verbs conjugated like 'droop'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'droop'
drool,
drop,
groop,
roop,
troop,
bloop,
boop,
brood,
brook,
broom,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- bend
- settle, sag, decline, swag, fade, fail, faint, flag
Antonyms
- bend
- straighten, stiffen, extend, stand
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, from O.N.
drupa "to drop," from P.Gmc.
*drup-, from PIE
*dhreub, related to O.E.
dropian "to drop."
Droopy "dejected, sad, gloomy" is attested from c.1225, from O.N.
drupr "drooping spirits, faintness."
2. Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop. See: Middle English '
droupen', Middle English '
droupen', Proto-Germanic '
*drūpaną'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] were exposed and bare; and they whirled and dashed their spray about the decks at random. Chimney, white with crusted salt; topmasts struck; storm-sails set; rigging all knotted, tangled, wet, and drooping: a gloomier picture it would be hard to look upon.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] each tier, are two opposite rows of small iron doors. They look like furnace-doors, but are cold and black, as though the fires within had all gone out. Some two or three are open, and women, with drooping heads bent down, are talking to the inmates. The whole is lighted by a skylight, but it is fast closed; and from the roof there dangle, limp and drooping, two useless windsails.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else to show: hideous tenements which take their name from robbery and murder: all that is loathsome, drooping, and decayed is here.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] chairs, and lounges, were of bamboo, wrought in peculiarly graceful and fanciful patterns. Over the head of the bed was an alabaster bracket, on which a beautiful sculptured angel stood, with drooping wings, holding out a crown of myrtle-leaves. From this depended, over the bed, light curtains of rose-colored gauze, striped with silver, supplying that protection from mosquitos which is an [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The bed was draped in white; and there, beneath the drooping angel-figure, lay a little sleeping form,—sleeping never to waken !
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] lay, robed in one of the simple white dresses she had been wont to wear when living; the rose-colored light through the curtains cast over the icy coldness of death a warm glow. The heavy eyelashes drooped softly on the pure cheek; the head was turned a little to one side, as if in natural sleep, but there was diffused over every lineament of the face that high celestial expression, that mingling of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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There were still flowers on the shelves,—all white, delicate and fragrant, with graceful, drooping leaves. Eva's little table, covered with white, bore on it her favorite vase, with a single white moss rose-bud in it. The folds of the drapery, the fall of the curtains, had been arranged and [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)