drooped

Droop \Droop\ (dr[=oo]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drooped}; p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Drooping}.] [Icel. dr[=u]pa; akin to E. drop. See
   {Drop}.]
   1. To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an
      animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or
      exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple
      flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." --Tennyson.
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            I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he
            began very much to droop and languish. --Swift.
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   2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like
      causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as,
      her spirits drooped.
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            I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
                                                  --Addison.
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   3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "Then
      day drooped." --Tennyson.
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