Definition for MOPE

MOPE, v.i. [I have not found this word unless in the D. moppen, to pout.]

To be very stupid; to be very dull; to drowse; to be spiritless or gloomy. Demoniac phrensy, moping melancholy. Milton. Or but a sickly part of one true sense / Could not so mope. Shak.

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