stooped

Verb

stoop (third-person singular simple present stoops, present participle stooping, simple past and past participle stooped)

1. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
   • He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
2. To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
   • Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
3. (intransitive) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
   • the holy eagle
     Stoop'd, as to foote vs: his Ascension is
     More sweet then our blest Fields1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
4. (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
   • to stoop a cask of liquor
5. (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
   • Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stoopt by death; and many left alive.1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615...
6. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
   • The grasse stoops not, she treads on it so light1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC

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