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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɹuːp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted dooprStarts with DEnds with P0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Droop means to hang down, sag, or become limp.

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry.
  • 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 […]

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