stooping
present participle ofstoop
stoop
verb[I]
uk/stuːp/us/stuːp/tobendthetophalfof thebodyforwardand down:
Thedoorwaywas solowthat we had to stoop to go through it.
Somethingfellout of hercoatpocketand she stoopeddownandpickedit up.
If someone stoops,theirheadandshouldersare alwaysbentforwardsand down:
He's over sixfeettall, but the way he stoops makes himlookshorter.
Not holding the body upright
- bent double
- bowed
- cower
- crouch
- double
- double(someone)up/over
- huddled
- hunch
- hunched
- loll
- lounge
- lounge around (something)
- scrunch
- slouch
- slump
- slumped
- sprawl
- stoop
- stooped
Phrasal verb
stoop tosomething
Examplesofstooping
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Activities such as walking,stooping, kneeling or running may be ascribed culturally specific meanings, which in turn impact on their experience.
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Why the apology, as thoughstoopingto what has after all been the driving motive of much transformative critical work?
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Stanislavski mentions his own habit ofstoopingas a young man, which he was determined to overcome.
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I accept that solicitors must advertise for business, butstoopingto that kind of campaign is unacceptable.
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Even when our men get to the pit, they have to walk two and a-half or three miles underground, perhaps in astoopingposition.
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She is doing this on the basis of inadequate information, inconclusive conclusions, and unreasonable assumptions, and she is evenstoopingto using false figures.
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But you see a patient come into hospital with large eyes, sunken face, andstoopingfigure.
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It has been suggested that to some extent they may be due to thestoopingposture adopted by miners, and the gassy condition of the pits.
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Despite this, a substantial number have bravely struggled on withoutstoopingto anything of a disreputable nature; but others, unfortunately, have lowered the whole tone of the industry.
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Mirages show an extra image or images of the miraged object, while looming, towering,stooping, and sinking do not.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the front thestoopingold lady in red robe certainly steals the show.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Rather than using the traditional method of entering a tea house bystoopinglow, the visitor climbs a ladder to the top.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When all the players arestooping, the last in the line begins leaping over all the others in turn.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To protect the man, the best creation of the nature, fromstoopingto such low standards as eating meat of dead animals/birds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For people who are not unusually short, top-loaders may be easier to load and unload, since reaching into the tub does not requirestooping.
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