OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15637

stoop

/stuːp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
porche • zaguán
The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...
Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door.
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📚 verb • entry_id 15636

stoop

/stuːp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
agacharse
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one,…
rebajarse
To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
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