stoops in English

noun

1

a posture in which the head and shoulders are habitually bent forward.

a tall, thin man with a stoop

synonyms: hunch, round shoulders, curvature of the spine, kyphosis

2

the downward swoop of a bird of prey.

We were watching Annie, another centre falconer, luring a young lanner through a pattern of stoops and dives after a pair of meat-garnished, dried wings swung on a long cord.

3

a porch with steps in front of a house or other building.

We've been sitting on the front stoop of an unlit house, blinking into the darkness, waiting, or so we thought.

synonyms: porch, steps, platform, veranda, terrace

verb

1

bend one's head or body forward and downward.

he stooped down and reached toward the coin

synonyms: lower, bend, incline, bow, duck

2

lower one's moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible.

Craig wouldn't stoop to thieving

synonyms: lower oneself, sink, descend, resort, go as far as, sink as low as

noun

hunch, round shoulders, curvature of the spine, kyphosis
porch, steps, platform, veranda, terrace
stoup
stoep

verb

bend (over/down), lower, hunch one's shoulders, lower oneself, bend
bend (over/down), lean over/down, crouch (down)
lower, bend, incline, bow, duck
hunch one's shoulders, walk with a stoop, be round-shouldered
lower oneself, sink, descend, resort, go as far as, sink as low as
lower oneself, condescend
bend, crouch, bow

Use "stoops" in a sentence

1. She stoops to gather stones en route.

2. 46 Bel bends down,+ Neʹbo stoops over.

3. Figures rocked on porches, hunched on stoops.

4. Fascinated by the variety and beauty of these creations, she now and again stoops to examine one.

5. (2 Kings 16:7-9) In her dealings with the Gentile nations, Judah stoops to “the depths of Sheol.”

6. One day in New York, I was on the street and I saw some kids playing baseball between stoops and cars and fire hydrants.

7. If a relative passed away, she <would condole/condoled>[Zero Conditional in Past Tense] - English Only forum who stoops to Condole with us.

8. All the Ornaments of the Church, altars, pyxes, Aumbries, and tabernacles, crosses, roods, images, lights, fonts, holy water stoops, banners, thuribles and so on, which were in legal use in the second year of Edward VI, are still to be ‘in use.’