Stoop

  • 51stoop down — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms stoop down : present tense I/you/we/they stoop down he/she/it stoops down present participle stooping down past tense stooped down past participle stooped down same as stoop I, 1) I stooped down to put my… …

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  • 52stoop your body to pollution —    obsolete    (of a female)    to copulate extramaritally    She is more likely to be recumbent than bending down:     Before her sister should her body stoop    To such abhorred pollution    Then, Isabel, live chaste. (Shakespeare, Measure for… …

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  • 53stoop laborer — noun : one that does stoop labor …

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  • 54stoop ball — a game resembling baseball, played in a street, schoolyard, or other confined paved area, in which a ball is thrown forcibly against a stairway or wall so that it rebounds into the air, bases and runs being awarded depending on the number of… …

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  • 55stoop — I. verb Etymology: Middle English stoupen, from Old English stūpian; akin to Swedish stupa to fall, plunge, Old English stēap steep, deep Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. a. to bend the body or a part of the body forward and… …

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  • 56stoop — Synonyms and related words: 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 …

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  • 57stoop — Yorkshire Dialect Post …

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  • 58stoop — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. bend, bow, crouch; condescend, deign; submit. See servility, humility, submission. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To bow or bend] Syn. incline, crouch, slant; see bow 1 , lean 1 . 2. [To condescend] Syn.… …

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  • 59stoop — see STEEP …

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  • 60stoop — v. n. Alys. 1103. AS. stupian …

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