stoop

stoop is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
3. noun. A post fixed in the earth.
4. intransitive verb. 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.
5. intransitive verb. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
6. intransitive verb. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
7. intransitive verb. To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
8. intransitive verb. To sink when on the wing; to alight.
9. transitive verb. To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
10. transitive verb. To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
11. transitive verb. To cause to submit; to prostrate.
12. transitive verb. To degrade.
13. noun. The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
14. noun. Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
15. noun. The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
16. noun. an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
17. noun. small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house

    Synonyms: stoep

18. noun. basin for holy water

    Synonyms: stoup

19. verb. carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward

    "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"

20. verb. sag, bend, bend over or down

    "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"

21. verb. bend one's back forward from the waist on down

    "he crouched down"

    "She bowed before the Queen"

    Synonyms: bend, bow, crouch

22. verb. descend swiftly, as if on prey

    "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"

23. verb. debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way

    "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"

    Synonyms: condescend

Synonyms

stoep, stoup, bend, bow, crouch, condescend

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stoop:

potos, spoot, topos

Common word forms

stoops, stooped, stooper, stooping

Words from these letters

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