adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of one who stoops.

   "This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way."

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of stoop form-of, gerund, participle, present

Adjective

1. 1
   Bending the body forward in a submissive or weak manner.

Adjective

1. 1
   having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

crookedhunchedpatronageround shoulderedround-backedround-shouldered

Example

More examples

"She was stooping to take something out of the oven."

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