What is the difference between Droop and Drop?
What is the difference between Droop and Drop? :
Droop : (verb)
( 1 ) Bend or hang downwards through tiredness or weakness
Flowers were drooping for lack of water.
Her head drooped sadly.
His spirits drooped at the news.
Drop : (noun)
( 1 ) Small rounded mass of liquid
Pour the oil in drops into the mixture.
These are drops of rain.
( 2 ) Decrease
There was a drop in prices of vegetables.
Drop : (verb)
( 1 ) Fall or allow something to fall
The bottle dropped and broke.
The climber slipped and dropped to his death.
( 2 ) Become weaker, less or lower
Her voice dropped to a whisper.
( 3 ) Allow someone to get out of a car, etc…
She dropped me near our house.
( 4 ) Send a letter, etc.. to someone
I dropped him a letter yesterday.
( 5 ) Stop seeing someone
She has dropped most of her old friends.
( 6 ) Stop doing or discussing something
Let us drop the formalities and call me SWEETY.
Look, can we just drop the subject?
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