Stoop Definition

sto͝op
stooped, stooping, stoops
verb
stooped, stooping, stoops
To bend (the head, etc.) forward.
Webster's New World
To carry the head and shoulders or the upper part of the body habitually bent forward.
Webster's New World
To condescend, or deign.
Webster's New World
To bend the body forward or in a crouch.
Webster's New World
To demean or degrade oneself.
Webster's New World
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noun
stoops
The act or position of stooping the body, esp. habitually.
Webster's New World
The act of condescending.
Webster's New World
A forward bending of the head and upper back, especially when habitual.
Walked with a stoop.
American Heritage
An act of self-abasement or condescension.
American Heritage
A swoop, as by a hawk at prey.
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Other Word Forms of Stoop

Noun

Singular:
stoop
Plural:
stoops

Origin of Stoop

  • From Dutch stoep (“platform", "pavement"). Cognate with English "step".

    From Wiktionary

  • From Old English stÅ«pian (“to bow, to bend"). Compare steep.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English stoupen from Old English stūpian

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Dutch stoep front veranda from Middle Dutch

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, from Old Norse stolpe

    From Wiktionary

  • Old English stope

    From Wiktionary

Stoop Sentence Examples

  • The sun was beating down on me as I sat on the stoop waiting for Mrs. Armstrong to pick me up.

  • Even with Cynthia's tiny height she was required to stoop to avoid the low ceiling.

  • He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his lips and met them with her own.

  • This pillar is known in Scotland as the " pit bottom stoop."

  • And so transcendent that he must stoop even to see the heavens !

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Words Starting With

SSTSTO

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POPOOP

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