stoop

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. A stooping, bent position of the body.
2. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

Verb

1. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
2. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
3. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
4. To cause to incline downward; to slant.
5. To cause to submit; to prostrate.
6. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
7. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

Συνώνυμα

bend

bend down

bow

🙇

crouch

bend over

lean

incline

condescend

slope

slouch

tip

bow down

tilt

lower

droop

deign

slant

duck

🦆

swoop

lower oneself

bent

sink

hunch

stoup

hunched

lean forward

curtsy

hang

descend

vouchsafe

bending over

veranda

bend forward

stoep

rounding of the shoulders

submit

be bent

stooped

porch

pounce

curve

pitcher

plummet

plunge

plunk

regurgitate

round-shouldered

round shoulders

rush

sag

settle

sloucher

splay

squat

step

stooping

subside

surrender

become bent

huddle oneself up

walk with a stoop

tuck

vestibule

wrong

yield

zoom

bend the knee

huddle up

hunch over

hunch up

prostrate oneself

round-backed

shower down

swoop down

duck under

bent back

bowhead

sudden descent

bend oneself

form a projection

make shoulders round

abasement

nod head

abate

barge

bear down

bevel

bob

buck

burst

buzz off

chamfer

come down

cower

crash

crook

crooked

curl

curl up

dash

💨

degrade

drop down

fly by

forge

gently

get

grievance

grovel

huddle

humble

humiliation

hump

hunchback

injustice

jug

lance

lean over

lie down

lift

lout

lunge

nosedive

pick up

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/stuːp/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: stoupen

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: stūpian

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: stuipen

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Νορβηγικά: stúpa

Συγγενές με Old Frisian: stēpa

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Νορβηγικά: steypa

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: stope

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Αγγλικά: stēap

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: stoupe

In summary

From Middle English stoupen, from Old English stūpian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian stēpa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).