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Stooping   /stˈupɪŋ/   Listen
Stooping

adjective
1.
Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect.  Synonyms: crooked, hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped.


Stoop

verb
(past & past part. stooped; pres. part. stooping)
1.
Bend one's back forward from the waist on down.  Synonyms: bend, bow, crouch.  "She bowed before the Queen" , "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
2.
Debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way.  Synonyms: condescend, lower oneself.
3.
Descend swiftly, as if on prey.
4.
Sag, bend, bend over or down.
5.
Carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward.



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"Stooping" Quotes from Famous Books



... but burned," muttered he stooping to examine the match, and thrusting a fallen log back into the fire with his boot. But in that very instant upon the intense stillness of the night burst suddenly a discordant clamor, a confusion of horrible and ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
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... pupils — the young noblemen! Pale and haggard faces, lank and bony figures, children with countenances of old men, deformities with irons upon their limbs, boys of stunted growth, and others whose long meagre legs would hardly bear the stooping bodies, all crowded on the view together. There was every ugliness or distortion that told of unnatural aversion conceived by parents for their offspring, or of young lives which, from the earliest dawn of infancy, had been one horrible endurance ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
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... barefooted, and but partially dressed. He had softly unhasped the door and stolen in on tip-toe. Mehetabel was surprised. It was not his wont to leave his bed at night, certainly not for any concern he felt relative to the child; yet now he was by the cradle, and was stooping over it with his head turned, so that his ear was applied in a manner that showed he was listening to the child's breathing. As his face was turned the feeble light of the smouldering rushlight was ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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... is very tiresome. I have seen many persons who attributed the failure of their eyes to the daily habit of reading while riding to and from the city. Children should be cautioned against reading with the head inclined forward. The stooping position encourages a rush of blood to the head, and consequently the eyes become congested, and the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 • Various
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... former suspicions seemed both unjust and ridiculous. Suppose Mr. Galbraith did happen to be a boat-builder? Was he not Bob's friend and Delight's uncle, a gentleman of honor who had money enough without stooping to secure more by treachery? And did it not follow that since Mr. Snelling was in his employ he must be a person of reputable character? A fig for ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
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