stooped
弯腰驼背,弯腰驼背的,弯弯驼背,驼背
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Definitions
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- : to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- : to carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forward: to stoop from age.
- : to bend, bow, or lean.
- : to descend from one's level of dignity; condescend; deign: Don't stoop to argue with him.
- : to swoop down, as a hawk at prey.
- : to submit; yield.
- : Obsolete. to come down from a height.
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- : to bend forward and downward.
- : Archaic. to abase, humble, or subdue.
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- : the act or an instance of stooping.
- : a stooping position or carriage of body: The elderly man walked with a stoop.
- : a descent from dignity or superiority.
- : a downward swoop, as of a hawk.
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Examples
The Babe walked over to the stooped figure at the microphone and threw his arms around Lou's neck.
No one blinked an eye when John Malkovich stooped to do Transformers 2.
The oldest man I met, stooped over and feeding some cats, said he was 83.
He stooped over her hand, and slobbered kisses upon her unresponsive glove.
We got off our horses and stooped over the man, forgetting for the moment that danger might lurk in the surrounding thicket.
I stooped down and asked him how he felt himself, but he made no answer, and evidently did not recollect me.
The farmer stooped down, and raised the shabby bonnet from the face of the woman to examine her more carefully.
Behind O'Dell stood a policeman; behind him again, a grave-eyed man stooped to an unusual task.