eyelids ... droop• Twice I ran perilously close to the edge, my eyes dazzled and eyelids drooping.• Tiredness crept over her, making her eyelids droop.• Her eyelids drooped, fluttered, and then drooped again.• Towards the end of his harangue his head grew heavy, his eyelids drooped, and his speech became thick.• One of the issues in his last re- electioncampaign was that his eyelids frequently drooped during meetings.