Definition of stoop

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Stoop (n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders..

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Stooper :: Stoop (n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection..
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Stoor :: Stooping () a. & n. from Stoop.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To degrade.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
Astoop :: Astoop (adv.) In a stooping or inclined position.
Stoop :: Stoop (n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders..
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..
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..
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.
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.
Vouchsafe :: Vouchsafe (v. i.) To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
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..
Cower :: Cower (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear..
Squat :: Squat (v. t.) To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit..
Stooping :: Stooper (n.) One who stoops.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
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