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debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"

carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"

sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"

descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"

debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"

carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"

sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"

descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"

To degrade.

Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.

A vessel of liquor; a flagon.

A post fixed in the earth.

To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.

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.

To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

To sink when on the wing; to alight.

To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.

To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

To cause to submit; to prostrate.

The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.

Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.

The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.

To degrade.

To bend the body downward and forward; descend from rank or dignity; submit; yield.

To bend (the body) downward and forward.

Habitual forward bend of head and shoulders; descent from dignity; stairway, veranda, or porch with seats.

To bend the body: to lean forward: to submit: to descend from rank or dignity: to condescend: to swoop down on the wing, as a bird of prey.

To cause to incline downward.

The act of stooping: inclination forward: descent: condescension: a swoop.

A pillar. Quarles.

A vessel of liquor; as, a stoop of wine or ale. "A stoop of wine."-Shak.

The steps at the entrance of a house: door-steps: also a porch with a balustrade and seats on the sides. "Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the street, and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats at the door."-J. F. Cooper.

Act of stooping; forward inclination.

To bend the body forward; condescend; yield; swoop down on the wing.

To bend or lean forward; bow, or be bowed down.

To bring or come down from dignity or rank; condescend.

To swoop.

An act of stooping.

A swoop.

An uncovered platform at the door of a house; a porch; veranda.

Act of stooping; condescension; swoop.

A vessel of liquor.

To bow down; to cause to incline downward.

To bend down or incline the body; to yield; to submit; to condescend; to be inferior; to swoop down; to alight; to sink to a lower place.

To bend the body forwards; to lean forwards in standing or walking; to cause to incline downwards; to yield; to submit; to condescend; to acknowledge inferiority; to come down on its prey, as a hawk.

Inclination forwards; condescension; in Scot., a post fixed in the earth, or a prop.

n. Act of stooping ;-descent from dignity or superiority ; condescension ; - the fall of a bird on its prey ; a swoop.

n. [Dutch] The steps of a door ; a verandah or a porch [American] ;-also, a stake or lost; especially, the post of a bed ;-figuratively, support ; pillar ; chief promoter of an enterprise or cause.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, Dutch] A vessel of liquor ; a flagon ; a stoup. [Scottish]