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stoop

/stup/ noun C1
  1. A stooping, bent position of the body. · The old man walked with a stoop.
  2. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

Plural stoops

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Stoop to conquer.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 44 · B2
I saw him stoop and strain until with a sharp crash it flew open.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 30 · B2
She would not stoop to admit that she meant to rival Gilbert in schoolwork, because that would have been to acknowledge his existence which Anne persistently ignored; but the rivalry was there and honors fluctuated between them.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 130 · C1
It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 23 · B2

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