Found 3 hits - Term: drooping, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
droop \droop\ dr=oop, v. i. imp. p. p. drooped; p. pr.
vb. n. drooping. icel. dr=upa; akin to e. drop. see
drop.
1. to hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an
animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or
exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "the purple
flowers droop." "above her drooped a lamp." --tennyson.
1913 webster
i saw him ten days before he died, and observed he
began very much to droop and languish. --swift.
1913 webster
2. to grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like
causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as,
her spirits drooped.
1913 webster
i'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
--addison.
1913 webster
3. to proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "then
day drooped." --tennyson.
1913 webster
see also:
drooped drooping drop
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
drooping
adj 1: weak from exhaustion syn: flagging
2: hanging down as from exhaustion or weakness syn: droopy,
sagging
3: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding
daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow";
"lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" syn:
cernuous, nodding, pendulous
see also:
flagging droopy sagging cernuous nodding pendulous
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
184 moby thesaurus words for "drooping":
anemic, asthenic, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bloodless,
bowed-down, cast down, chicken, collapsing, coming apart, cowardly,
cracking, crumbling, dangling, dashed, debilitated, decadent,
deciduous, declining, declivitous, decurrent, degenerate, dejected,
depressed, descendant, descending, despairing, despondent,
desponding, deteriorating, discouraged, disheartened,
disintegrating, dispirited, down, down-reaching, downcast,
downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhearted, downhill,
downsinking, downward, draining, droopy, dropping, dull, dwindling,
easy, ebbing, effete, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, fading,
fagged, failing, faint, fainting, faintish, falling, fatigued,
feeble, feeling faint, feeling low, flabby, flaccid, flagging,
flapping, floppy, footsore, fragmenting, frazzled, going to pieces,
gone, good and tired, gutless, hanging, heartless, hypochondriac,
hypochondriacal, imbecile, impotent, in low spirits, in the depths,
in the doldrums, in the dumps, jaded, languid, languishing,
languorous, lax, limber, limp, listless, loose, lop, lop-eared,
loppy, low, low-spirited, lustless, marcescent, marrowless,
nerveless, nodding, on the descendant, on the downgrade,
pessimistic, pining, pithless, plummeting, plunging, pooped,
powerless, ready to drop, regressive, relaxed, retrograde,
retrogressive, rickety, rubbery, run ragged, run-down, sagging,
sagging in folds, saggy, sapless, seedy, setting, shaky,
shriveling, sinewless, sinking, slack, sliding, slipping, sloppy,
slumping, soft, spineless, spiritless, streaming, strengthless,
subdued, submerging, subsiding, suicidal, swag, tabetic, tired,
tired-winged, toilworn, tottering, tumbledown, unhardened,
unnerved, unrefreshed, unrestored, unstrung, waning, wasting,
way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weakly, wearied, weariful,
weary, weary of life, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
weary-worn, wilting, withering, woebegone, world-weary, worn,
worn-down, worsening
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drooping_pag1.html Ptosis (Drooping Eyelid) - AllAboutVision.com
...... eyelid, can be confused with dermatochalasis, or drooping eyelid skin ... Ptosis refers to the drooping of an eyelid, and affects only the upper ... ..
http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/droopinglids.htm, score=100, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 3:17 am MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Eyelid drooping
...... is trying to see under their drooping lids. Eyelid drooping can make ... is excessive drooping of the upper eyelid(s). See also drooping eyelid ... ..
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003035.htm, score=77, date indexed=November 19, 2005, 8:12 pm Breast ptosis or drooping - short scar mastopexy photos Bermant
...See how the drooping skin was the problem. Restoration of nipple ... Breast Ptosis (Drooping Breast) and Mastopexy Surgery (Resuspending ... ..
http://www.plasticsurgery4u.com/procedure_folder/breast_ptosis_surgery3.html, score=76, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 8:08 pm Eyelid Ptosis (drooping upper eyelid) Plastic Surgery
...Ectropion (Drooping of the lower eyelid). *Recurrent ectropion after ... Eyelid Ptosis (Drooping of upper eyelid) The upper eyelid drapes over ... ..
http://www.plasticsurgery4u.com/procedure_folder/eyelid_recon_folder/eyelid_ptosis.html, score=74, date indexed=November 4, 2005, 3:57 pm Ectropion - drooping lower eyelid with blepharoplasty corrective plastic&...
...Ptosis of the eyelid (drooping of the upper eyelid). Ptosis ... Ectropion - Drooping Lower Eyelid. The lower eyelid protects the eye. ... ..
http://www.plasticsurgery4u.com/procedure_folder/eyelid_recon_folder/ectropion.html, score=71, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 9:14 pm Brow Lift - Surgery for Drooping Forehead
...Drooping brows can leave redundant skin for the upper eyelids to move ... brow ptosis (drooping of brow) Muscles that animate the forehead can ... ..
http://www.plasticsurgery4u.com/procedure_folder/brow_lift.html, score=71, date indexed=January 10, 2006, 3:12 pm Welcome to Netiran!
...Drooping tulip is also known as "Mary's Tear Drooping Flower" and its ... Drooping tulip is also known as "Mary's Tear Drooping Flower" and its ... ..
http://www.netiran.com/?fn=artd(86), score=67, date indexed=November 25, 2005, 8:18 pm Coronal Brow Lift for eyebrow ptosis (drooping)
...... drooping brow). A ptotic (drooping) eyebrow can make the upper eyelid ... The brow could not be moved high enough to prevent a drooping eyelid. ... ..
http://www.plasticsurgery4u.com/procedure_folder/eyelid_recon_folder/eyelid_brow_ptosis.html, score=64, date indexed=January 13, 2006, 6:10 am Symptom - Eyelid drooping - Hartford, Connecticut
...... is trying to see under their drooping lids. Eyelid drooping can make ... is excessive drooping of the upper eyelid(s). See also drooping eyelid ... ..
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