stoop

About 1.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A stooping, bent position of the body.

   The old man walked with a stoop.

2. noun An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
3. verb To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

   He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

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

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

5. verb Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
6. verb To cause to incline downward; to slant.

   to stoop a cask of liquor

7. verb To cause to submit; to prostrate.
8. verb To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

Similar words

stoep bow stoup bend crouch descend condescend lower oneself doorstep doorway

Often followed by

to and down of in so over for with

Word family

stooped stooping stoops stoup