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Stooped

adjective

1.

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

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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... I don't see why they shouldn't have done it here-right," said a wide-spread woman whose stays creaked like shoes whenever she stooped or turned. "'Tis well to call the neighbours together and to hae a good racket once now and then; and it may as well be when there's a wedding as at tide-times. I ...

— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy

... grown-up man, nearer thirty than twenty years old, who stooped to take an interest in his neighbor's little girl, and flattered himself that he was bringing her up in the way she should go. It amused him in his leisure moments to try the experiment of rearing a girl to be as unlike as possible the ...

— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 - No 1, Nov 1877 • Various

... to avoid it. Others describe him as afflicted with constant thirst and hunger, though the most delicious banquets were exposed to his view; one of the Furies terrifying him with her torch whenever he approached towards them. Some exhibit him standing to the chin in water, and whenever he stooped to quench his thirst, the water as constantly eluding his lip. Others, with fruits luxuriously growing around him, which he no sooner advanced to touch, than the wind ...

— Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology - For Classical Schools (2nd ed) • Charles K. Dillaway

... looking very happy. I have not seen you look so bright for months. You are very beautiful, my daughter," said her mother, putting her arm around her daughter as Helen stooped to kiss her. ...

— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor

... classical attainments and attempts of the Cockney poets. As for Mr Keats' "Endymion," it has just as much to do with Greece as it has with "old Tartary the fierce;" no man, whose mind has ever been imbued with the smallest knowledge or feeling of classical poetry or classical history, could have stooped to profane and vulgarise every association in the manner which has been adopted by this "son of promise." Before giving any extracts, we must inform our readers, that this romance is meant to be written in English heroic rhyme. To those who have read any of Hunt's poems, this hint might indeed ...

— Early Reviews of English Poets • John Louis Haney

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