stooping

• IPA^(key): /ˈstuːpɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -uːpɪŋ

stooping (comparative more stooping, superlative most stooping)

1. Bending the body forward in a submissive or weak manner.

stooping

1. present participle and gerund of stoop

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.

• Noah Webster (1828) “stooping”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (J–Z), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.