| 单词 | stooped |
| 释义 | stooped (once / 563 pages) adj If you're stooped, you're hunched or bent over. An elderly woman leaning over a walker might be described as stooped. Very old people and those with curved, bent shoulders and backs are stooped. A witch in a fairy tale might be described as stooped, or an injured football player who staggers, stooped over with pain, off the field. The verb stoop comes from an Old English word, stupian, "to bow or bend," from a Germanic root. You might also hear a stooped person described as stoop shouldered. WORD FAMILYstoop: stooped, stooper, stooping, stoops+/stooper: stoopers/stooping: stoopingly USAGE EXAMPLESAlthough he was stooped with age, it was easy to see how tall he once had been. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) His defiant image lingered long after he gave up his trademark Cohiba cigars for health reasons and his tall frame grew stooped. Seattle Times(Nov 25, 2016) The cancer eating her father’s stomach has stooped his once-athletic form. Washington Times(Nov 21, 2016) adj having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect Syn crooked, hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooping unerect not upright in position or posture |
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