Crossword-Solution: STOOP
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stoop | n. | Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door. |
| Stoop | n. | A vessel of liquor; a flagon. |
| Stoop | n. | A post fixed in the earth. |
| Stoop | v. i. | To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position. |
| Stoop | v. i. | To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection. |
| Stoop | v. i. | To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. |
| Stoop | v. i. | To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop. |
| Stoop | v. i. | To sink when on the wing; to alight. |
| Stoop | v. t. | To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body. |
| Stoop | v. t. | To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor. |
| Stoop | v. t. | To cause to submit; to prostrate. |
| Stoop | v. t. | To degrade. |
| Stoop | n. | The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders. |
| Stoop | n. | Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation. |
| Stoop | n. | The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STOOP | anagram | POSTO, SOPOT, SOPTO, SPOOT, TOPOS |
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Sentences with STOOP (5)
Nor do I—whom the scarlet letter has disciplined to truth, though it be the truth of red-hot iron entering into the soul—nor do I perceive such advantage in his living any longer a life of ghastly emptiness, that I shall stoop to implore thy mercy.
She knew that Chauvelin had spoken the truth; the man was too earnest, too blindly devoted to the misguided cause he had at heart, too proud of his countrymen, of those makers of revolutions, to stoop to low, purposeless falsehoods.
When he should stoop over me I had but to grasp his throat with one hand and strike him a terrific blow with the slack of my chain, which I gripped firmly in my right hand for the purpose.
Here was a boy that was respectable and well brung up; and had a character to lose; and folks at home that had characters; and he was bright and not leather-headed; and knowing and not ignorant; and not mean, but kind; and yet here he was, without any more pride, or rightness, or feeling, than to stoop to this business, and make himself a shame, and his family a shame, before everybody.
But the brutes are more chivalrous than man—they do not stoop to cowardly intrigue.” At dinner that night Tarzan sat next to a young woman whose place was at the captain’s left.
Quotes with STOOP (3)
When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the tree. The Blue that was before her stood inches from a boy in an Aglionby sweater. There was a slight stoop to his posture, and his shoulders were spattered darkly with rain. It was his fingers that Blue felt on her face. He touched her cheek with the backs of his fingers. Tears coursed down the other Blue's face. Though some strange magic, Blue could feel them on her face as we…
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Tr…
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect t…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 244 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).