stooping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstuːpɪŋ/

Alternative forms

• stouping

Adjective

stooping (comparative more stooping, superlative most stooping)

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

Translations

bending the body forward

• Latin: prōnus
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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.

References

• stooping in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.