Sekirov Dictionary

stoop

/stuːp/

verb 7
noun 6
forms 6

verb7

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To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
•
To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
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To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- Where men of great wealth do stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly. — 1625
•
Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- the holy eagle Stoop'd, as to foote vs: his Ascension is More sweet then our blest Fields — 1611
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To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- The grasse stoops not, she treads on it so light — 1593
To cause to incline downward; to slant.
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To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stoopt by death; and many left alive. — 1614

noun6

•
A stooping, bent position of the body.
- The old man walked with a stoop.
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(Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door. — 1856
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(US) The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
- A short flight of iron steps leads up to it and a storm door is built over the stoop, forming a little vestibule, and serving to keep out the gusts. — 1902
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An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
- At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry — 1819
A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
(dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

forms

stooped · stoopt · stooping · stoopeth · stoops · stoopest

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