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Webster 1913 Edition


Stooping

Stoop′ing

,
Adj.
&
Noun.
from
Stoop
.
Stoop′ing-ly
,
adv.

Webster 1828 Edition


Stooping

STOOPING

,
ppr.
Bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

Definition 2024


stooping

stooping

English

Alternative forms

  • stouping

Adjective

stooping (comparative more stooping, superlative most stooping)

  1. Bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

Verb

stooping

  1. present participle of stoop

Noun

stooping (plural stoopings)

  1. The act of one who stoops.
    • 2011, Don DeLillo, The Names
      This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way.

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