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Synonyms for droop

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for droop

to hang limply, loosely, and carelessly

to become limp, as from loss of freshness

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The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for droop

a shape that sags

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droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

hang loosely or laxly

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become limp

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He put the .270 collimator stud in the barrel and it drooped. Yep, it was still a .30-06.
The Stroke Association recommends using the face-arm-speech-test (FAST) to help recognise a stroke in other people: Face - can the person smile or has their mouth or eye drooped? Arm - can the person raise both arms?
Q My lovely gunnera has drooped and the leaves have gone black.
A week later, the right side of her face drooped, her right arm and leg became paralyzed, and she stopped talking.
The rotor system drooped all the way to 86 percent.
Expansions in general, however, fell 3% from last year to 485,260 SF as the overall amount of space in new commitments drooped. And, in a significant turn around from the past few years when relocations, primarily in the form of one major user or several firms servicing that one major user, played a pivotal role in annual demand, moves into the county also felt 56% from last year to 242,110 SF.
Lilies of the valley once drooped in the shade at the side of the house, peony bushes and rhubarb grew beside the storm cellar, the laundry line ran from the house to the shed, and an alleyway provided a path where my friends and I walked barefoot.