Stoop
noun
- 1.
- (North-eastern U.S. A small porch, platform, or staircase leading to the entrance of a house or building) ខឿន (មុខទ្វារ), រានហាល
- 2.
- (The act or position of stooping the body) ការកោងខ្នង, ការបន្ទន់ខ្លួន, បន្ថោកខ្លួន
Example: That girl does not stand straight; she stoops She has a stoops, Do not stoop to stealing.
verb — past tense: stooped ; past participle: stooped ; present participle: stooping ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (to bend forward and down to condescend, to lower oneself morally, to do something beneath one's dignity) stoop to pick it up ឱន, stoop with age កោងខ្នង, stoop to theft ធ្លាក់ខ្លួន (ទៅដល់)
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- 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.
- 2.
- A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
- 3.
- A post fixed in the earth.
- 4.
- The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
- 5.
- Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
- 6.
- The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
verb — past tense: stooped ; past participle: stooped ; present participle: stooping ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) 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.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To sink when on the wing; to alight.
- 6.
- (TRANSITIVE) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
- 7.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
- 8.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- 1.
- To degrade