stooping
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
stooping (comparative more stooping, superlative most stooping)
- Bending the body forward in a submissive or weak manner.
Translations edit
bending the body forward
Verb edit
stooping
- present participle and gerund of stoop
Noun edit
stooping (plural stoopings)
- The act of one who stoops.
- 2011, Don DeLillo, The Names:
- This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way.
References edit
- stooping in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.