Definitions for stoop

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IPA: /stup/

Stoop is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in stoop (oopst).

Definitions for stoop

noun

1. the act or an instance of stooping.
2. a stooping position or carriage of body:
3. a descent from dignity or superiority.
4. a downward swoop, as of a hawk.
5. a small raised platform, approached by steps and sometimes having a roof and seats, at the entrance of a house; a small porch.
6. stoup.

verb (used with object)

1. to bend (oneself, one's head, etc.) forward and downward.
2. Archaic. to abase, humble, or subdue.

verb (used without object)

1. to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position:
2. to carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forward:
3. (of trees, precipices, etc.) to bend, bow, or lean.
4. to descend from one's level of dignity; condescend; deign:
5. to swoop down, as a hawk at prey.
6. to submit; yield.
7. Obsolete. to come down from a height.

Origin of stoop

before 900; Middle English stoupen (v.), Old English stūpian; cognate with Middle Dutch stūpen to bend, bow; akin to steep¹

Examples for stoop

Nobody ever says they want to become a cop so they can bust people for urinating in public or drinking alcohol on their stoop.

I had to sit on my stoop for a few minutes and think, ‘Did that just happen?’

The archetype of the disobedient Cossack who will not stoop to intimidation remains an important part of Ukrainian identity.

In order to pass out he was obliged to stoop, so tall was he.

I told him I did, and it was because I did and meant to do so to the last, that I would not stoop to propitiate any of them.

He showed no interest on seeing K., who had to stoop to enter the low room.

Harriett saw his stoop, and the taut, braced power of his back as he lifted.

Why stoop to intentional leaks and anonymous sources to push a defensive narrative?

No fools are they, in fact, even when to that name they 'stoop to conquer.'

Then you see him stoop to something this kind of person would never do, steal a bicycle.