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DROOP

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droop I. verb A. tranzitiv

a lăsa în jos, a coborî; a lăsa să atârne, a înclina, a apleca;

(amer. mil.) to droop the colour a saluta cu drapelul.

droop I. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a se lăsa în jos, a se pleca.

2. (despre plante) a se veşteji, a se apleca;

plants droop from drought plantele se ofilesc din cauza secetei.

3. a-şi pierde curajul.

4. a intra în declin, a merge spre asfinţit.

droop II. substantiv

1. lăsare, coborâre.

2. veştejire, ofilire.

3. istovire, obosire.

4. scăpătare, decădere, declin.

5. (muz.) coborâre a tonului.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Drooping of the upper eyelid.

(Eyelid Ptosis, NCI Dictionary)

Only does the stranger-man snarl with his hungry face. Also does he rock to and fro, his shoulders drooping, his knees bent, and his legs wide apart so that he does not fall down.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

I could not look at her, I could not look at him, I knew quite well that he was looking at us both; and I turned to the window and looked out there, at some shrubs that were drooping their heads in the cold.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Then, crouching down, he rested the end of the barrel upon the ledge of the open window, and I saw his long moustache droop over the stock and his eye gleam as it peered along the sights.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He gradually picked up more and more of it as we conversed with him; but, his very eye-glass seemed to hang less easily, and his shirt-collar, though still of the old formidable dimensions, rather drooped.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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