Stoop
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
A post fixed in the earth.
To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
To sink when on the wing; to alight.
To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
To degrade.
The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
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Stoop Quotations
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
Charlie Chaplin
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Ovid
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Phillips Brooks
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
John Bright
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
Doug Larson
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
Philip Massinger
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
Lew Wallace
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Stoop Translations
stoop in Dutch is buigen, overhellen, hellen, aflopen
stoop in French is s'incliner, incliner
stoop in Portuguese is incline
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