Stoop

/stuːp/ · noun

Meaning

A stooping, bent position of the body..

Definitions by Sense

1. A stooping, bent position of the body.
2. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
3. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
4. To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
5. (intransitive) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
6. (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
7. (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
8. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

Example Sentences

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.

At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry

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.

Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?

the holy eagle Stoop'd, as to foote vs: his Ascension is More sweet then our blest Fields

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• stoops
• stooping
• stooped
• stoup
• stowp

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