STOOPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stooped mean? 

• STOOPED (adjective)
  The adjective STOOPED has 1 sense:

1. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect

  Familiarity information: STOOPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOOPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect

Synonyms:

crooked; hunched; round-backed; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping

Context example:

a little oldish misshapen stooping woman

Similar:

unerect (not upright in position or posture)

 Context examples 

I stooped over him and examined him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He held something which flashed in his right hand, and he stooped at the threshold to unloose the black hound.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The dog-musher, still on his knees and stooped over White Fang, calculated for a moment.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then he stooped, picked it up himself, and with two strokes cut Buck’s traces.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Belcher stooped down and turned over the man’s inert head so as to show his features.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I left the window, and moved with little noise across the carpet; as I stooped to take off my shoes, a cautious hand tapped low at the door.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He rushed at the burglars, but another—it was an elderly man—stooped, picked the poker out of the grate and struck him a horrible blow as he passed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wolf Larsen stooped, coolly, to the Cockney, and pressed with thumb and finger at the rear of the jaws and below the ears.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

My wife run out to embrace me, but I stooped lower than her knees, thinking she could otherwise never be able to reach my mouth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Often he stooped and picked pale muskeg berries, put them into his mouth, and chewed and swallowed them.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)