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How to pronounce droop in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms loll
Type of dangle, drop, swing
Type Words
Synonyms sag
Type of depression, impression, imprint
Derivation droopy
Type Words
Synonyms wilt
Type of dilapidate, crumble, decay
Type Words
Synonyms flag, sag, swag
Type of drop, drop down, sink
Has types slouch, slump, bag

Examples of droop

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The top hat he sports at social functions appears to droop like a wilted flower.
From the telegraph.co.uk
English peas droop like thick, long ropes and flowers are the width of Frisbees.
From the chron.com
Fat tomatoes droop heavily, peas climb skyward and cooking herbs grow like weeds.
From the sacbee.com
Eggplants droop off a vine in the warm and pleasantly humid indoor growing space.
From the washingtonpost.com
For the perfect finishing touch, wear oversized nylons that droop to your ankles.
From the thenewstribune.com
Drop Gayle in the second over and watch the opposing captain's head also droop.
From the smh.com.au
When your kids droop in the afternoon, retreat to the hotel for a nap or swim.
From the latimes.com
Spanish bluebells are paler, do not droop or nod, and have little or no scent.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Their eyelids droop, unable to withstand even the weight of their tiny lashes.
From the cnn.com
More examples
  • Sag: a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat"
  • Sag: droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
  • Hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled"
  • Wilt: become limp; "The flowers wilted"
  • (drooping) weak from exhaustion
  • (drooping) cernuous: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"
  • A proportionalu2013integralu2013derivative controller (PID controller) is a control loop feedback mechanism (controller) commonly used in industrial control systems. A PID controller continuously calculates an error value as the difference between a desired setpoint and a measured process variable...
  • Droop is the phenomenon that efficiency of a light-emitting diode tends to decrease for increasing current.
  • (Drooping) Alcohol intoxication (also known as drunkenness or being drunk or inebriated) is a physiological state occurring when an organism has a high level of ethanol in its bloodstream, or when ethanol otherwise causes the physiological effect known as drunkenness. ...