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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

... him behind the parados, and placed the rosary round the arms of the cross which was erected over him. On the following day one of our men went out to see the grave, and while stooping to place some flowers on it he got shot through the head. That evening he was buried ...

— The Red Horizon • Patrick MacGill

... of the earth, out from such peace as this, might there, if one could look—unroll some vision of horrible contrast? Were blood, and wrath, and groans, and thunderous roar of guns down there under that far, fair horizon, stooping in golden beauty to the cool, ...

— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... opening one could ride through between the birches behind them, and it was evident that the horsemen could scarcely fail to see them the moment they left their shelter. One of them had already dismounted, and was apparently stooping beside the prints the horse-hoofs had left where a little snow had sifted down upon the trail. Hetty heard his laugh, and it ...

— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss

... advocating the views which he held, looked especially to measures correspondent to the British navigation act, which had given England the command of the sea. He contended that America would thrive more from exclusion and contest, than from conciliating and stooping to a power that slighted her; and that now was the moment, if ever, when England was engaged in mortal strife with France, to bring her to reason. [2] Mr. Madison's plan was debated at different periods of the session, and underwent considerable modification in its progress ...

— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

... A long walk, stooping most of the way, as the progress was made through the narrow, low-roofed tunnel; then a slight raise which traveled for a fair distance at an easy grade—at last to stop; and there before them, jammed between the rock, was the strike, ...

— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

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