stooped
stoohpt
- v bend one's back forward from the waist on down
The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse - v debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
- v descend swiftly, as if on prey
The eagle stooped on the mice in the field - v sag, bend, bend over or down
the rocks stooped down over the hiking path - v carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward
- s having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
- With Party approval he played golf on occasion, and snapshots that leaked out over the years showed his body had grown stooped and his hair had grown white.
- Bald, stooped Carl Hayden, 84, is a congressional institutionand a last link between the New Frontier and the real one.
- He died as a forgotten footnote, a stooped gardener assigned to the Beijing Botanical Gardens where he tilled the earth that had supported his Qing Dynasty predecessors for nearly .