1. stoop - Noun
2. stoop - Verb
To degrade.
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
A post fixed in the earth.
To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
To sink when on the wing; to alight.
To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. George Burns
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. William Wordsworth
And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend! Arthur Symons
It is no time to stoop when the head is off. English Proverb
He must stoop that has a low door. Italian Proverb
If you gladly stoop to the ground don't be surprised if they trample over you. Ethiopian Proverb