stoops

To suck one's teeth, indicating disappointment, derision or disgust.

The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.

The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.

A stooping, bent position of the body.

“The old man walked with a stoop.”

An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

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 or do 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?”

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.

To degrade.

A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.