stoop
/stup/ verbo C2En español: agacharse, rebajarse
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch. · He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
- To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- To cause to incline downward; to slant. · to stoop a cask of liquor
- To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
He/she/it stoops · Pasado stooped · Participio pasado stooped · Forma en -ing stooping
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De la biblioteca
Stooping with one of his quick feline pounces, he placed the slipper upon the blood mark on the sill.
According to my notion he dropped it while stooping over Drebber’s body, and did not miss it at the time.
He may have been quite right in thinking so, for he was an odd-looking personage, with an ungainly figure and long iron-gray hair that touched his stooping shoulders, and a full, soft brown beard which he had worn ever since he was twenty.
I saw him stoop and strain until with a sharp crash it flew open.
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