Past tense of stoop
regular verb
The past tense of stoop is stooped. The past participle is also stooped.
Forms of stoop
| Base form (V1) | stoop /stuːp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | stooped /stuːpt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | stooped /stuːpt/ |
| Present participle | stooping /ˈstuːpɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | stoops |
Stooped in a sentence
- He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
- At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company...
- A coin on the ground caught the sun and I stooped to pick it up.From the entry catch the sun
- “My, how far we've fallen that museums have stooped to trafficking in fantastical creations.” “Wait.2024 April 4, Guy Endore-Kaiser, “Hello, Brother” (0: from the start), in Ghosts, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Captain Isaac Higgintoot…. From the entry japery
- Wycliffe, an incurable catophile, stooped to stroke the cat but Kemp stopped him.1996, W. J. Burley, Wycliffe and the House of Fear, page 28. From the entry catophile
Meaning of stoop
- noun A stooping, bent position of the body.
- noun An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
- verb To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
Questions about the past tense of stoop
- What is the past tense of stoop?
- The past tense of stoop is stooped.
- What is the past participle of stoop?
- The past participle of stoop is stooped.
- Is stoop a regular or irregular verb?
- Stoop is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stoop (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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