Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   stoop

   /sto͞op/

   verb

   • 1. bend one's head or body forward and downward: "he stooped down and reached toward the coin" Similar bend downbendlean overlean downkneelcrouch downsquat downhunker downhunch downinformal:scoochlowerbendinclinebowduck
   • ▪ have the head and shoulders habitually bent forward: "he tends to stoop when he walks" Similar hunch one's shoulderswalk with a stoopbe round-shouldered
   • 2. lower one's moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible: "Craig wouldn't stoop to thieving" Similar lower oneselfsinkdescendresortbe reducedgo as far assink as low as
   • ▪ condescend to do something: archaic "the princes now and then stooped to pay a nominal homage"
   • 3. (of a bird of prey) swoop down on a quarry: "we witnessed an eagle stooping on its prey"

   noun

   • 1. a posture in which the head and shoulders are habitually bent forward: "a tall, thin man with a stoop"
   • 2. the downward swoop of a bird of prey.

   Word Origin Old Englishstūpian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to the adjective steep1. Both senses of the noun date from the late 16th century.

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • S

     1

   • T

     1

   • O

     1

   • O

     1

   • P

     3

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points