stoop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stoupen, from Old English stūpian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian stēpa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).
Inflected forms:
form: stoops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stoops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stooping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stooped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stooped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A stooping, bent position of the body.
pos: noun
examples: The old man walked with a stoop.
Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.
gloss: An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
pos: noun
examples: At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry
gloss: To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
pos: verb
examples: He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.
Pedersen took a short corner and El-Hadji Diouf was given time to send in a cross for Mame Diouf to stoop and head home from close range.
gloss: To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
pos: verb
examples: Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
gloss: Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: the holy eagle
Stoop'd, as to foote vs: his Ascension is
More sweet then our blest Fields
Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.
gloss: To cause to incline downward; to slant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to stoop a cask of liquor
gloss: To cause to submit; to prostrate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stoopt by death; and many left alive.
gloss: To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
pos: verb
examples: The grasse stoops not, she treads on it so light
Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, […] / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
Theſe, theſe are Arts, my Prince, / In which your Zama does not ſtoop to Rome.
gloss: To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
pos: verb
examples: Where men of great wealth do stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
Synonyms: bend down
crouch
squat
Derived words: poop stoop
stoop labor
stoopwork
stoopy
astoop
stoop and roop
stooper
stoopless
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