stoop

CEFRB2

/stuːp/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To bend your body forward and down.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

Examples

  • I had to stoop to go into the room.

  • I won't stoop to his level.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /stup/
  • /stʉp/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

  2. To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A stooping, bent position of the body.

More examples

In context

  • Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?

  • The old man walked with a stoop.

  • He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

Synonyms

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Question 1 · Quick check

To pick up the fallen coin, the old man had to blank down because his back was stiff.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English stoupen, from Old English stūpian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian stēpa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).