droop
suomi-englanti sanakirjadroop englannista suomeksi
väsähtää, nuupahtaa, kuihtua, nuukahtaa
roikkua
riippua
painauma
droop englanniksi
To hang downward; to sag.
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a. 1992, quote attributed to (w)
- I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
(RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth)
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(RQ:Chambers Younger Set).
(quote-book)
To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
(RQ:Shakespeare King John)
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(RQ:Swift Miscellanies)
(RQ:Addison Cato)
(RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam)
To allow to droop or sink.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-1) pithless arms, like to a wither’d vineThat droops his sapless branches to the ground;
1892, (w), “Knapweed” in ''Le Cahier Jaune: Poems'', Eton: privately printed, p. 62,https://archive.org/details/lecahierjaunepoe00bensrich
- Down in the mire he droops his head;
- Forgotten, not forgiven.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) let us forth,I never from thy side henceforth to stray,Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoindLaborious, till day droop (..)
(RQ:Tennyson Princess) and now when dayDroop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with thoseSix hundred maidens clad in purest white (..)
A condition or posture of drooping.
(ux)
A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
(infl of)