stoop

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

stoop [stoop stoops stooped stooping] verb, noun BrE [stuːp] NAmE [stuːp]
verb
1. intransitive ~ (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.
2. intransitive to stand or walk with your head and shoulders bent forwards
•He tends to stoop because he's so tall.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
n. sense 1 and v. Old English stūpian Germanic ↑steepn. sense 2 mid 18th cent. Dutch stoep

Example Bank:
•He tends to stoop because he's so tall.
Idiom: ↑stoop so low
Derived: ↑stoop to something
 
noun
1. singular if sb has a stoop, their shoulders are always bent forward
2. countable (NAmE)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.

Word Origin:
n. sense 1 and v. Old English stūpian Germanic ↑steepn. sense 2 mid 18th cent. Dutch stoep
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  stoep, stoup, condescend, lower oneself, crouch, bend, bow