stoop
verb/stuːp/
/stuːp/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they stoop | /stuːp/ /stuːp/ |
| he / she / it stoops | /stuːps/ /stuːps/ |
| past simple stooped | /stuːpt/ /stuːpt/ |
| past participle stooped | /stuːpt/ /stuːpt/ |
| -ing form stooping | /ˈstuːpɪŋ/ /ˈstuːpɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] stoop (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.
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- [intransitive] to stand or walk with your head and shoulders bent forwards
- He tends to stoop because he's so tall.
Word Originverb Old English stūpian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to the adjective steep. The noun sense dates from the late 16th cent.
Idioms
See stoop in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarysink/stoop to a new/an all-time low
- to behave in a worse way than ever before
- The government has stooped to an all-time low with this policy.
- Reality TV has sunk to new lows.
stoop so low (as to do something)
- (formal) to drop your moral standards far enough to do something bad or unpleasant
- She was unwilling to believe anyone would stoop so low as to steal a ring from a dead woman's finger.
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