Crossword clues for stooped
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stoop \Stoop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stooping.] [OE. stoupen; akin to AS. st?pian, OD. stuypen, Icel. st[=u]pa, Sw. stupa to fall, to tilt. Cf 5th Steep.]
To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
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To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
--Dryden.These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.
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To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. ``She stoops to conquer.''
--Goldsmith.Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
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To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
The bird of Jove, stooped from his a["e]ry tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
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To sink when on the wing; to alight.
And stoop with closing pinions from above.
--Dryden.Cowering low With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing.
--Milton.Syn: To lean; yield; submit; condescend; descend; cower; shrink.
Wiktionary
in a bent bodily position, hunched v
(en-past of: stoop)
WordNet
adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman" [syn: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooping, crooked]
Usage examples of "stooped".
I watched him, gripped with fear and fascination such as I had never known, as he handled the ampoule carelessly then stooped swiftly and laid it on the wet road, under the sole of his left shoe.
The station cleared quickly, and when the medics arrived Anareta was alone, stooped over a half-alive man.
Below it, Ludlow Baculum was neither stooped nor sagging nor withered.
Stooped, he strode stiffly to the machine shop and inquired of the machinist when the buzz saw and lathe were planning to take a fairly protracted intermission, because he, the ballet pianist and former concert pianist, wished to practice, very softly, some thing complicated, a so-called adagio.
The girl gave him a helpless, half-amused shrug of her eyebrows, and Rudy gallantly stooped to gather the bearskin in his arms.
Then Lobkyn stooped the broken stump to seize, Bowed brawny back and with a wondrous ease Up by the roots the rugged bole he tore And tossed it far as it had been a straw.
He had instantly washed her arm in holy water and repeated some prayers, and while he was saying them the breviary of the superior was twice dragged from her hands and thrown at his feet, and when he stooped to pick it up for the second time he got a box on the ear without being able to see the hand that administered it.
I imagine this Aquarius as an old, stooped man, his spine warped by the weight of a wooden yoke from which hang a pair of brimming pails.
She flushed, then stooped to pick up the burka from the dust where she had thrown it.
Then, out of the hut stooped a massively corpulent figure clad in a leopards king cloak.
The old hag stooped down, cursing, to retrieve her weapon, and as she did so Melia wakened and called urgently from her upper bunk.
To dispel the illusion that so outmatched his own arts, the Black Dragon stooped forward to clutch at the spread cloak and the slouch hat that tilted from the top of the cloth blot.
Molly Pargeter, a woman of forty, whose hair was kept in place with difficulty, might have looked like one of the larger Graces in the paintings she admired had not her size caused her such embarrassment that she lowered her head and stooped a little as she walked.
He saw the rank of his companion archers sway forward as if by a preconcerted signal, when each man stooped for a second shaft.
Outside on the casing Quinton stooped to peer at the water lapping along the saddle tank.