verb, noun
verb [V]
1 ~ (down) to bend your body forwards and downwards:
She stooped down to pick up the child. * The doorway was so low that he had to stoop.
2 to stand or walk with your head and shoulders bent forwards:
He tends to stoop because he's so tall.
IDIOMS
stoop so low (as to do sth) (written) to lower your moral standards far enough to do sth bad or unpleasant:
She was unwilling to believe anyone would stoop so low as to steal a ring from a dead woman's finger.
PHRASALVERBS
stoop to sth to lower your moral standards to do sth bad or unpleasant:
You surely don't think I'd stoop to that! * [+-ing] I didn't think he'd stoop to cheating.
Part of speech: noun
1 [sing.] if sb has a stoop, their shoulders are always bent forward
2 [C] (AmE) a raised area outside the door of a house with steps leading up to it:
the front stoop * We sat talking on the stoop until midnight.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for stoop is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is stoop a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, stoop is tagged as noun.
Does stoop appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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