stooping
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈstuːpɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːpɪŋ
Adjective[edit]
stooping (comparative more stooping, superlative most stooping)
- Bending the body forward in a submissive or weak manner.
Translations[edit]
bending the body forward
Verb[edit]
stooping
- present participle and gerund of stoop
Noun[edit]
stooping (plural stoopings)
- 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.
References[edit]
- stooping in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.