stooping
English
Alternative forms
- stouping
Adjective
stooping (comparative more stooping, superlative most stooping)
- Bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.
Noun
stooping (plural stoopings)
- 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.
- 2011, Don DeLillo, The Names
References
- stooping in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
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