Thesaurus / droop
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He looked up, half shutting his one funny eye, and cocking one ear up, and letting the other droop down.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMLove has come rushing to the beck of a tip-tilted chin, or the tone of a voice, or the droop of an eyelid.
CABIN FEVERB. M. BOWERThen his head grew very tired, and his eyes began to droop till they were tight shut and he fell asleep.
SEVEN O'CLOCK STORIESROBERT GORDON ANDERSONThe old gentleman shook his head, let his arms sadly droop, and appeared to sink into deep musing.
BALSAMO, THE MAGICIANALEXANDER DUMASThe Duchess bore it again, but the lines of her mouth, with the strong droop at the corners, became a trifle grim.
MARRIAGE LA MODEMRS. HUMPHRY WARDWhile they lay in her hand and she looked, the rose-veined petals began to close, the leaves to droop and the stem got limp.
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINEJOHN FOX, JR.As to the cook himself, he had a perplexed droop in every curve of his rounded shoulders.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITEThere was a fixed smile on his colourless lips and a lifeless droop in his weary pose.
THE RAKE'S PROGRESSMARJORIE BOWENThe grieved, childlike droop of the sensitive little mouth told its own story, and Miss Barbara set her lips sternly together.
MILDRED'S INHERITANCEANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTONAs spring advanced, Alice began to droop, and Sally's quick eye detected in her infallible signs of decay.
THE ENGLISH ORPHANSMARY JANE HOLMESWORDS RELATED TO DROOP
- abate
- adulterate
- break up
- cripple
- crumble
- cut
- debase
- debilitate
- decline
- decrease
- depress
- devitalize
- dilute
- diminish
- droop
- dwindle
- ease up
- enervate
- exhaust
- fade
- fail
- faint
- flag
- give way
- halt
- impair
- impoverish
- invalidate
- languish
- lessen
- limp
- lose
- lose spirit
- lower
- minimize
- mitigate
- moderate
- reduce
- relapse
- relax
- sap
- slow down
- soften
- temper
- thin
- thin out
- tire
- totter
- tremble
- undermine
- vitiate
- wane
- water down
- wilt
- annoy
- bore
- burden
- cause ennui
- cloy
- debilitate
- depress
- disgust
- dishearten
- distress
- drain
- droop
- drowse
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exasperate
- exhaust
- fade
- fag
- fail
- fall off
- fatigue
- flag
- glut
- grow tired
- harass
- have had enough
- irk
- jade
- leave one cold
- lose interest
- make discontented
- nauseate
- oppress
- overwork
- pain
- plague
- sap
- sicken
- sink
- strain
- take it out of
- tax
- tire
- tire out
- try the patience of
- tucker out
- vex
- weaken
- wear down
- wear out
- weigh
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