stoop
[verb]
Synonyms:
- bend, bow, crouch, duck, hunch, lean
- stoop to: sink to, descend to, lower oneself by, resort to
[noun]
Synonyms:
- slouch, bad posture, round-shoulderedness

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Related Idioms: be so good as to, come (or get) down from one's high horse, lower oneself, act beneath oneself, debase (or demean) oneself
Related Words: relax, thaw, unbend, accord, concede, accommodate, favor, oblige

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. stoop¹ /stuːp/ verb [intransitive]
[Language: Old English; Origin: stupian]

1. (also stoop down) to bend your body forward and down:
We had to stoop to pass through the low entrance.
Dave stooped down to tie his shoes.

2. to stand with your back and shoulders bent forwards
stoop to something phrasal verb
to do something bad or morally wrong, which you do not normally do
stoop to doing something
I didn’t expect you to stoop to lying.
stoop to sb’s/that level
Don’t stoop to her level.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. stoop² noun

1. [singular] if you have a stoop, your shoulders are bent forward:
Mr Hamilton was an odd, quiet man who walked with a stoop.

2. [countable] American English a raised area at the door of a house, usually big enough to sit on

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲