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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Examples of "stoop" in Sentences

  • Please don't stoop to the level of this user.
  • To do otherwise is to stoop to the level of those.
  • Don't stoop to the level of the average creationist.
  • Why stoop to listening to what one of the peasants has to say
  • He will frequently stoop to trickery or cheating in the rematch.
  • I will never stoop to the level the lot of you have turned into.
  • It was pathetic to see some of the opposition stoop to that level.
  • Please do not stoop to the level of the vandals when dealing with them.
  • Even when dealing with the worst of the worst, don't stoop to that level.
  • But the talk quickly turned to the unwanted visitors who haunted the stoop.

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