Antonyms for droop
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1. droop

   Antonyms:
   abide, afford, allow, bear, bear up under, bear with, brook, endure, permit, put up with, submit to, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate, undergo

   Synonyms:
   break, break down, despair, fail, faint, fall, falter, give out, give up, sink, succumb, surrender, yield

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1. droop

   Antonyms:
   revive, flourish, luxuriate, prosper, rally, raise

   Synonyms:
   sink, flag, decline, pine, languish, drop, bend, incurve, fade

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1. • Decay

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1. sag, droopverb

   a shape that sags

   "there was a sag in the chair seat"

   Synonyms:
   sag

2. sag, droop, swag, flagverb

   droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

   Synonyms:
   wilt, reel, lurch, flag, ease off, careen, sag, slacken off, swag, keel, stagger, sag down, loll, ease up

3. droop, lollverb

   hang loosely or laxly

   "His tongue lolled"

   Synonyms:
   loaf, arse around, bum around, frig around, lounge around, arse about, waste one's time, loll around, swag, bum, lounge about, wilt, loll, flag, bum about, sag

4. wilt, droopverb

   become limp

   "The flowers wilted"

   Synonyms:
   sag, loll, wilt, flag, swag

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1. droopverb

   Synonyms:
   languish, faint, grow faint, sink, bend, drop, hang, slouch, fade, wilt, wither

How to use droop in a sentence?

1. Macneile Dixon:

   Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

2. William Wordsworth:

   When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

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