Vocabulary Word
Word: droop
Definition: bend or hang downward; become weakened; Ex. His shoulders drooped with tiredness; N.
Definition: bend or hang downward; become weakened; Ex. His shoulders drooped with tiredness; N.
Sentences Containing 'droop'
For three days he watered this cabbage with a distillation of arsenic; on the third, the cabbage began to droop and turn yellow.
He makes dreadful mouths as he rules the ciphering-book; and now he throws his eye sideways down our lane, and we all droop over our books and tremble.
Now the thing for YOU to do is to droop your tails and go home and crawl in a hole.
More Vocab Words
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::: jocular - said or done in jest or playfully; marked by joking
::: controvert - oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict; ADJ. controversial; N. controversy
::: expound - explain
::: reprisal - retaliation
::: apologist - one who writes in defense of a cause or institution; N. apologia
::: plaudit - praise; enthusiastic approval; round(succession or series) of applause; ADJ. plauditory; CF. applaud
::: maneuver - (manoeuver) strategic military or naval movement (done for training purposes); carefully planned process; stratagem; V: carry out a military maneuver; use maneuvers in gaining an end
::: bowdlerize - expurgate; CF. Thomas Bowdler
