stoop
IPA: stˈup
noun
- A stooping, bent position of the body.
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
- A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
- (chiefly chiefly New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, also Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- (US) The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
- (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
verb
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- (intransitive) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
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