droop

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something which is limp or sagging.
  2. A condition or posture of drooping.
    — He walked with a discouraged droop.
  3. A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
动词 v.
  1. To hang downward; to sag. intransitive
    — On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry.
  2. To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. intransitive
    — Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
  3. To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag. intransitive
    — But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?
  4. To allow to droop or sink. transitive
    — […] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground;
  5. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. figuratively,intransitive
    — […] let us forth, / I never from thy side henceforth to stray, / Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind / Laborious, till day droop […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Drooping; adroop. archaic
    — But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the droop-headed flowers all. / And hides the green hill in an April shroud :

词形变化

droops present,singular,third-person drooping participle,present drooped participle,past drooped past droops plural more droop comparative most droop superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
adroop droopage drooper brewer's droop droop nose droop snoot
并列词
slat

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
词源 3
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.
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