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STOOPED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect

Example:

a little oldish misshapen stooping woman

Synonyms:

crooked; hunched; round-backed; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unerect (not upright in position or posture)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb stoop

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 Context examples: 

Hansel stooped and stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as many as he could get in.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

However, we had no luck, for just as Trelawney fired, down he stooped, the ball whistled over him, and it was one of the other four who fell.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A progressive disorder of the nervous system marked by muscle tremors, muscle rigidity, decreased mobility, stooped posture, slow voluntary movements, and a mask-like facial expression.

(Parkinson's Disease, NCI Dictionary)

"Good, good! oh, you so clever lady!" said Van Helsing, enthusiastically, as he stooped and kissed her hand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I gave a cry to warn my friends that something was amiss, and running forwards I stooped over the body.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Who dares malign him? He had a soul worth millions of the friends to whom he stooped!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She could not think it he, and lay staring up at him in startled silence, till he stooped and kissed her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the prisoner’s face.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes stooped over it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw her yearning, hungry eyes, and her ill-fed female form which had been rushed from childhood into a frightened and ferocious maturity; then he put his arms about her in large tolerance and stooped and kissed her on the lips.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)