stoop

verb

/stuːp/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they stoop	/stuːp/ /stuːp/
he / she / it stoops	/stuːps/ /stuːps/
past simple stooped	/stuːpt/ /stuːpt/
past participle stooped	/stuːpt/ /stuːpt/
-ing form stooping	/ˈstuːpɪŋ/ /ˈstuːpɪŋ/

Idioms Phrasal Verbs

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[intransitive] stoop (down) to bend your body forwards and downwards
- She stooped down to pick up the child.
- The doorway was so low that he had to stoop.
[intransitive] to stand or walk with your head and shoulders bent forwards
- He tends to stoop because he's so tall.
Topics Appearancec2

Word Originverb Old English stūpian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to the adjective steep. The noun sense dates from the late 16th cent.

Idioms

sink/stoop to a new/an all-time low

to behave in a worse way than ever before
- The government has stooped to an all-time low with this policy.
- Reality TV has sunk to new lows.

stoop so low (as to do something)

(formal) to drop your moral standards far enough to do something bad or unpleasant
- She was unwilling to believe anyone would stoop so low as to steal a ring from a dead woman's finger.

stoop

noun

/stuːp/

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[singular] if somebody has a stoop, their shoulders are always bent forward
[countable] (North American English) a raised area outside the door of a house with steps leading up to it
- the front stoop
- We sat talking on the stoop until midnight.
Topics Houses and homesc2

Word Originnoun sense 1 Old English stūpian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to the adjective steep. The noun sense dates from the late 16th cent. noun sense 2 mid 18th cent.: from Dutch stoep, of the same meaning.