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STOOPING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
Example:
a little oldish misshapen stooping woman
Synonyms:
crooked; hunched; round-backed; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping
Classified under:
Similar:
unerect (not upright in position or posture)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb stoop
Context examples:
The rest were all somewhat stooping, as though watching the manoeuvres of this last.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A question about bending, kneeling, or stooping.
(Bending, Kneeling, or Stooping, NCI Thesaurus)
How he took it I cannot say, for I never left the room, but there is no doubt that it was then, while I was opening cabinets and stooping to boxes, that he managed to abstract some of the devil’s-foot root.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His tall, firm, upright figure, among the bulky forms and stooping shoulders of the elderly men, was such as Emma felt must draw every body's eyes; and, excepting her own partner, there was not one among the whole row of young men who could be compared with him.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But it was so turned as to show them nothing but the rosy glow playing on the roof, the fire sparkling in a hundred repetitions along the glazed front of the presses, and their own pale and fearful countenances stooping to look in.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The telegram which we eventually received came late one night just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came down to breakfast in the morning.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His heavy-jowled, clean-shaven face expressed ferocity as well as courage, and he stood with his small, blood-shot eyes fixed viciously upon Jim, and his lumpy shoulders stooping a little forwards, like a fierce hound training on a leash.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Yes, yes: someone has passed along,” said Holmes, stooping over the grass border.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“He will come to anon,” said the knight, stooping over him and passing his fingers through his hair.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was on the summit of one swell when the schooner came stooping over the next.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
