stooped

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stoop1

▶verb

• 1 bend one's head or body forwards and downwards.

  ■ have the head and shoulders habitually bent forwards.

• 2 lower one's moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible.

• 3 (of a bird of prey) swoop down on a quarry.

▶noun

• 1 a stooping posture.

• 2 the downward swoop of a bird of prey.

– origin OE stūpian (v.), of Gmc origin; rel. to steep1.

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stoop2

▶noun N. Amer. a porch with steps in front of a house or other building.

– origin C18: from Du. stoep (see stoep).