(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
(v. i.) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
(v. t.) To let droop or sink.
(n.) A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) Male volunteers for mass radiography examination, aged 40 or more, were questioned about their sputum production, smoking habits, and, when applicable, their method of smoking cigarettes.Of 5,438 cigarette smokers 460 (8.4%) smoked their cigarettes without removing the cigarette from the mouth between puffs ("drooping" cigarette smokers) whereas the rest smoked in the normal manner.Persons who admitted to producing sputum from their chests on most days of the year or on most days for at least three months of the year for a minimum of two years were classified as chronic bronchitics in the absence of other causative disease.The rate of chronic bronchitis among the "drooping" cigarette smokers (41.5%) was considerably greater than that among those smoking cigarettes in the normal manner (33.6%).
(2) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
(3) One side of my face was drooped, I had hearing loss, and just having the worst headache of my life.
(4) The patient has a typical saddle nose and drooping auricles.
(5) The local minimum tumour temperature is explicitly estimated from the power required to maintain each member of an array of electrically heated catheters at a known temperature, in conjunction with a new bioheat equation-based algorithm to predict the 'droop' or fractional decline in tissue temperature between heated catheters.
(6) Your knees creak, your back aches and your fleshy bits droop more than they used to.
(7) They ranged from tail droop to complete lower limb paralysis.
(8) Shoulder droop may induce thoracic outlet syndrome and may simulate scoliosis in the athlete.
(9) In laterally recumbent dogs the lower kidney glides craniad, whereas the upper kidney tends to droop, yielding radiographs in which the upper kidney is often clearer and more bean-shaped than the lower.
(10) A decay that continues rapidly spreads downwards throughout the stalk and the affected plants soon droop.
(11) The pqp mutants display zygotic (spread and drooping wings, cross-vein defects, extra bristles) and maternal (embryonic lethality) recessive phenotypes.
(12) Get with the programme or your ratings will continue to droop like the sad features of a basset hound.
(13) The nose tip should be prevented from drooping by means of columellar supporting grafts.
(14) The author stresses the importance of columellar sensation, nasal tip sensation, and the role of the nasalis muscles in determining the postoperative results of corrective rhinoplasty, especially as these have an influence on the "drooping tip" and the columellar base.
(15) I mean, I don't think I ever wore a bra to prevent droop (ain't got nothing to droop, honey) or backache.
(16) Five normal and 12 droop-winged fledglings were captured, killed, and examined.
(17) The excretory urogram showed a left hydronephrotic lower pole with a "drooping flower" and no opacification of the upper pole.
(18) The clinical signs were characterised by ear drooping, lip commissural paralysis, sialosis, and collection of food on the paralysed side of the mouth.
(19) Symptoms of intoxication in the form of convulsions and tendency of circling in one direction with drooping ears were observed alongwith corneal opacity 40 weeks after the experiment.
(20) Complications included oral wound dehiscence (3 dogs), shifting of the mandible toward the operated side (6 dogs), and drooping of the tongue (2 dogs).
Slouch
Definition:
(n.) A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
(n.) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
(v. i.) To droop, as the head.
(v. i.) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
(v. t.) To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the Meadow Inn hotel, these statistics are embodied in a depressing tableau of punters slouched on stools, jabbing at flashing buttons.
(2) Clearly, Page 3 is ridiculous and anachronistic, and it never fails to astonish my American friends when they come to Britain (although I'm not quite sure why they should be so shocked, seeing as most of them come from the city of Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which is no slouch itself at reducing women to sex objects ).
(3) With due respect to Donovan's apparent replacement, Brad Davis, the left-footed set piece threat he offers doesn't, at first glance, outweigh the other areas of the game where Donovan still looks a better option (and Donovan's no slouch on set pieces either, it should be noted).
(4) Mario Götze, Miroslav Klose, Toni Kroos, André Schürrle, Shkodran Mustafi and Roman Weidenfeller enacted an old football chant that had previously only been seen on the terraces, jumping and waving as they sang "That's what the Germans look like," then slouching with hanging heads to the words "That's what the Gauchos (Argentinians) look like".
(5) He accepted the description used by Bob Geldof, well known for his own use of Anglo-Saxon words, as “no slouch” when it comes to swearing.
(6) It also confers a responsibility on the audience to be attentive, to "assist" (as the French say) the performance: there is no room to slouch or hide in this tiny arena.
(7) These animals became lethargic, slouched and developed dyspnoea which became progressively more severe during the course of the study.
(8) I was due to interview 2 Chainz properly tomorrow, but he's in a carpe diem mood: "If I'm saying let's do it, then you should take advantage," he says, slouched in a chair with a blunt in his hand.
(9) Close up your counting house on Christmas Eve and watch your clerk slide homewards along the ice slide on Cornhill, before slouching around the corner to take your “melancholy dinner” in the “usual melancholy tavern”.
(10) Putin looked relaxed before the meeting, slouching in his chair, while Yanukovych sat bolt upright and spoke with long pauses between sentences.
(11) However, when individual behavioral responses were considered, the change in lymphocyte activation during separation was significantly related to behavioral responses which reflected disturbance, such that the change in lymphocyte activation following in vitro stimulation with the mitogens phytohemagglutinin and Concanavalin A (markers of the immunocompetence of T lymphocytes) was related to levels of vocalization and time spent in slouched postures.
(12) With Labor unable to provide its base with any compelling reason to vote, Australia goes to the polls today in a mood of generalised cynicism – and Abbott's likely to slouch towards Canberra as a result.
(13) There is a satirical cartoon doing the rounds online in Russia that depicts a figure slouched in front of a television set, both the screen and the anonymous viewer’s brain filled with identical swirls of bewildering electronic static.
(14) Now, when I went in to register the agents looked up in hope that I’d come to offer my property for sale, then collapsed in a disappointed slouch.
(15) Gray is quick and found himself with the whole of the United half to run into but Luke Shaw is no slouch either and caught up with the striker.
(16) A slouching gaggle of twentysomethings have come to watch these qualifying battles live, though most of them don't arrive until after lunchtime.
(17) Most of those present are teenagers not old enough to vote, slouching on beanbags, texting or nodding their heads to the beat on their headphones.
(18) Later Maxine Carr would insist that on her return from Grimsby the entire duvet and its cover were cleaned and wet in the washing machine, although Ian Huntley (a 'slob' who slouched on the couch, never washed up, never used the vacuum cleaner) didn't even know how to use the machine.
(19) Tsarnaev slouched; his hair was large and fluffy, and he wore a scrappy beard on his chin.
(20) He’s got an extraordinary network of donors around the country and I know he’ll be a strong candidate if he runs.” Rubio, who no slouch in fundraising, would have to catch up to Bush and Romney.