Definition of stoop

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Stoop (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection..

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Stooping :: Stooped (imp. & p. p.) of Stoo.
Leapfrog :: Leapfrog (n.) A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To degrade.
Cheese :: Cheese (n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
Bait :: Bait (v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.
Round-shouldered :: Round-shouldered (a.) Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
Incline :: Incline (v. t.) To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility..
Stoop :: Stoop (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
Canceleer :: Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop..
Cower :: Cower (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear..
Astoop :: Astoop (adv.) In a stooping or inclined position.
Condescend :: Condescend (v. i.) To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Deign :: Deign (v. t.) To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.
Stoop :: Stoop (n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation..
Stoor :: Stooping () a. & n. from Stoop.
Lout :: Lout (v. i.) To bend; to box; to stoop.
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