stooped

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/stuːpt/ English

Definitions

verb

To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.“He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.”
To 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?”
Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
To cause to incline downward; to slant.“to stoop a cask of liquor”

adjective

In a bent bodily position, hunched

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Synonyms

bend down crouch squat crooked round-shouldered unerect hunched round-backed bent slouched bowed curved arched rounded humped inclined drooping sagging

Associated

posture shoulders spear pick looked walk mouth hair look face man low

Rhymes

drooped whooped trooped looped swooped souped pooped grouped hooped cooped

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