Stoop

n.	1.	(Arch.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
	1.	A vessel of liquor; a flagon. Fetch me a stoop of liquor. - Shak.
	1.	A post fixed in the earth.
v. i.	1.	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. [imp. & p. p. Stooped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stooping.]
	2.	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. - Addison.
	3.	To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly. - Bacon.
	4.	To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop. The bird of Jove, stooped from his aëry tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. - Milton.
	5.	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.
v. t.	1.	To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
	2.	To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
	3.	To cause to submit; to prostrate. Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears Are stooped by death; and many left alive. - Chapman.
	4.	To degrade.
n.	1.	The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
	2.	Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation. Can any loyal subject see With patience such a stoop from sovereignty? - Dryden.
	3.	The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.

Noun	1.	stoop - an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
	2.	stoop - basin for holy water Synonyms: stoup
	3.	stoop - small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house Synonyms: stoep
Verb	1.	stoop - bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse" Synonyms: crouch, bend, bow
	2.	stoop - debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail" Synonyms: lower oneself, condescend
	3.	stoop - descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
	4.	stoop - sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
	5.	stoop - carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"

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