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Stoop   /stup/   Listen
Stoop

noun
1.
An inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward.
2.
Basin for holy water.  Synonym: stoup.
3.
Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.  Synonym: stoep.
verb
(past & past part. stooped; pres. part. stooping)
1.
Bend one's back forward from the waist on down.  Synonyms: bend, bow, crouch.  "She bowed before the Queen" , "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
2.
Debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way.  Synonyms: condescend, lower oneself.
3.
Descend swiftly, as if on prey.
4.
Sag, bend, bend over or down.
5.
Carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward.



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"Stoop" Quotes from Famous Books



... the coin in the air, and as it fell at Paul's feet he felt constrained to stoop and pick it up. To do anything else might have aroused the suspicions of the man who stared. And at the worst it meant another contribution toward the various funds which the boys ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren
... was a light brick-red, perfectly uniform in tint up to the roots of the hair itself; his yellow moustache was as stiff as a toothbrush and I verily believe that he had his black smoking jacket thickened a little over the shoulder-blades so as to give himself the air of the slightest possible stoop. It would be like him to do that; that was the sort of thing he thought about. Martingales, Chiffney bits, boots; where you got the best soap, the best brandy, the name of the chap who rode a plater down the Khyber cliffs; the spreading ...
— The Good Soldier • Ford Madox Ford
... himself was a noteworthy person. A tall, thin, spectacled man, about forty years old, with a student's stoop in his shoulders, and wearing uncommonly scanty pantaloons, exhibiting an undue proportion of his boots. In early life he had been a cadet in the military academy of West Point; but, becoming very weak-sighted, and thereby in a good manner disqualified for active ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... your chain; stoop and be hang'd, [Casts it down. Yet the fish nibbled, when she might not swallow: Go'ut[499] I have curtail'd, what ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... greatest privations and fatigues and perils, and approaching on foot the gloomy fortress of Canossa (beyond the Po), in which Hildebrand had intrenched himself. Even then the angry pontiff refused to see him. Henry had to stoop to a still deeper degradation,—to stand bareheaded and barefooted for three days, amid the blasts of winter, in the court-yard of the castle, before the Pope would promise absolution, and then only at the intercession of the ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume V • John Lord


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