Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
- 3noun
A post fixed in the earth.
- 4intransitive 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.
- 5intransitive verb
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- 6intransitive verb
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- 7intransitive verb
To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
- 8intransitive verb
To sink when on the wing; to alight.
- 9transitive verb
To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
- 10transitive verb
To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
- 11transitive verb
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- 12transitive verb
To degrade.
- 13noun
The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
- 14noun
Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
- 15noun
The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
- 16noun
an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
- 17noun
small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
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- 18noun
basin for holy water
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- 19verb
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"
- 20verb
sag, bend, bend over or down
"the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
- 21verb
bend one's back forward from the waist on down
"he crouched down"
"She bowed before the Queen"
- 22verb
descend swiftly, as if on prey
"The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
- 23verb
debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
"I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
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