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.
- Absolut has also created a drink recipe called stoop party.
- Why should Sarah Palin stoop so low as to meet with Hillary?
- 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.
- The lowest she knows how to stoop is to something completely lame.
- 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.
- What if that isn't the case and the stoop is his big, happy, momentous break?
- This is a gimmick to lure voters and I never thought I would see McCain stoop to the same level as Clinton - oh – she jumped on his bandwagon ..
- And it’s not just that my stoop is somewhat set back from the street, I often work by my window and I hardly ever even seen anyone on the prowl.
- His stoop is more pronounced, and the talk around the Vatican is that life would probably be easier for him — and his staff — if he tried glasses and a hearing aid.
- The well-scrubbed Dutch stoop is famous and has come to serve as an example of public exhibitionism and bourgeois pretentiousness .... but it was no pretense; the interiors of the Dutch houses were equally scrubbed and scoured.