DROOP

droop. Droop, v.i. to pine away, languish, faint, sink

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Droop (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] [[Icel. dr�pa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.]] 1. 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.
I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift. 2. 2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage. Addison. 3. 3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. “Then day drooped.” Tennyson.