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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



... who spoke was dressed in deep black; but as there was a crape band round his hat which lay upon the table, it would seem that he was in mourning, and possibly, therefore, not a clergyman. He was something above the middle height; but his figure was spoiled by its extreme thinness, and a stoop in the shoulder which seemed to be the effect of weakness. His face was very thin, and his cheek perfectly pale; but his features were beautifully proportioned, and his large gray eyes beamed with a subdued and melancholy splendor. There was the fire of fever, and ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various
... at once," he cried, and seeing the boy stoop to pick up the note, which fell to the deck, ran down ...
— Brandon of the Engineers • Harold Bindloss
... adventures; and when he had fixed his choice, he piously visited the cell of Severinus, the popular saint of the country, to solicit his approbation and blessing. The lowness of the door would not admit the lofty stature of Odoacer: he was obliged to stoop; but in that humble attitude the saint could discern the symptoms of his future greatness; and addressing him in a prophetic tone, "Pursue" (said he) "your design; proceed to Italy; you will soon cast away ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon
... belongs to the same caste. The defects of husband and wife must be different: if he is blind, she must be hump-backed or lame, and vice versa. But if the young man in question is prejudiced, and wants a healthy wife, he must condescend to make a mesalliance; he must stoop to choose a wife in a caste that is exactly one degree lower than his own. But in this case his kinsmen and associates will not acknowledge her; the parvenue will not be received on any conditions whatever. Besides, all these exceptional instances depend entirely on the family Guru—on the priest ...
— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
... him and the seraphim, Slave of the wheel of labour, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades? What the long reaches of the peaks of song, The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose? Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop.'' ...
— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN


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