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Stoops

verb
Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.verbTo suck one's teeth, indicating disappointment, derision or disgust.
2.nounThe staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
3.nounThe threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
4.nounA stooping, bent position of the body.
"The old man walked with a stoop."
5.nounAn accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
6.verbTo bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
"He stooped to tie his shoe-laces."
7.verbTo lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
"Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?"
8.verbOf a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
9.verbTo cause to incline downward; to slant.
"to stoop a cask of liquor"
10.verbTo cause to submit; to prostrate.
11.verbTo yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
12.verbTo descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
13.verbTo degrade.
14.nounA post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
15.nounA vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.

Synonyms

doorstepstepporchverandahbend downcrouchsquatstoepbowstoupbenddescend

Rhymes With

troopsgroupswhoopsparatroopsnincompoopspoopsdrupeshoops
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