Stoop

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 A small porch, unroofed platform, or raised veranda leading to a main entrance.
 * The workers made a stoop in front of the door.
 * 1)  The threshold of one's doorway, a doorstep

Verb

 * 1) To bend oneself, or one's head, forward and downward.
 * He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
 * 1) *1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
 * Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.
 * 1) To lower oneself; to demean or do 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?
 * 1) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
 * 2) * 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley,  William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie, 4th ed., p. 63:
 * Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.
 * Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.

Synonyms

 * bend down

Noun

 * 1) A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section below) position of the body
 * The old man walked with a stoop.

Noun

 * 1)  A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

Derived terms

 * stoup and room

Adverbs for Stoop
cautiously; humbly; dejectedly; wearily; miserably; subserviently; abjectly; obsequiously.

Thesaurus
accommodate, accord, be shamed, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, bob, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow to, cannonball, cascade, cataract, chute, collapse, come down, comedown, concede, condescend, cower, crash, crash dive, crawl, creep, cringe, cringe to, crouch, crouch before, curtsy, debacle, declension, declination, defluxion, deign, derogate, descend, descending, descension, descent, dip down, dive, do homage, do obeisance, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drop, drop down, drop off, dropping, duck, fall, fall down, fall into disrepute, fall off, falling, favor, fawn, flatter, gainer, gallery, genuflect, genuflection, get down, go down, go downhill, gravitate, gravitation, grovel, header, hunch, hunch down, hunker down, inclination, incur discredit, incur disesteem, incur disgrace, jackknife, kneel, kneel to, kneeling, knuckle to, kowtow, lanai, lick the dust, lickspittle, lordosis, lose altitude, lose caste, lose countenance, lose credit, lose face, lower oneself, nod, nose dive, nose-dive, obeisance, oblige, parachute, parachute jump, patio, piazza, pitch, plop, plummet, plummeting, plump, plunge, plunk, porch, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pour down, power dive, precipitate, prostration, pull out, rain, rapids, relax, reverence, running dive, salaam, scrouch down, scrunch, sink, skin-dive, sky dive, sky-dive, sleeping porch, slouch, slouching, solarium, sound, squat, stationary dive, stooping, sun porch, supination, swan dive, swoop, swoop down, take a header, thaw, toadeat, toady, torticollis, trend downward, truckle, truckle to, unbend, veranda, vouchsafe, wallow, waterfall, welter, wryneck

Etymology 1
From stoep:. Cognate with English "step".

Etymology 2
From stupian:. Compare steep:.

Etymology 3
From, from stolpe:

Alternative forms

 * stoup

Noun

 * Finnish: kuisti
 * Russian: ,


 * Spanish: ,

Synonyms

 * porch, veranda
 * step, doorstep

Verb

 * Finnish: kumartua


 * Finnish: alentua
 * German: sich beugen (1), sich bücken (1)
 * Russian: ,


 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:, inclinarse


 * Finnish: syöksyä

Derived terms

 * stoopy
 * stoop and roop

Noun

 * Finnish: kumara

Anagrams

 * poots
 * topos