stooped

UK/stuːpt/US/stuːpt/

adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,753 of 15,258leans spoken

Stooped means bent forward at the shoulders. A permanent curve rather than a momentary bend.

It describes posture, and a stooped figure is one of the standard ways of suggesting age or long labour in a description. The cause may be habit, height or a curvature of the spine. It differs from stooping, which is a single deliberate movement. Hunched is close and suggests tension rather than years, and bowed suggests weight or grief.

Definitions of stooped

1adjectivestoopedHaving the shoulders and upper back permanently bent forward.B2+
“He was tall and slightly stooped.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, A Song of Ice and Fire

First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.

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stooped in the wild

When the Thracian captain stooped to look into the well, Timocleia pushed him down into it, and then hurled heavy stones down until the captain died.
Timoclea
Depending on atmospheric conditions, the objects can appear to be elevated or lowered, stretched or stooped.
Looming and similar refraction phenomena
Ben Crom (from Irish Binn Chrom, meaning 'curved/stooped peak/cliff') is a 526 metres mountain in the Mourne Mountains in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Ben Crom
Named after a stooped mesquite tree, the well served a ranch owned by Lonald Blankenship.
Gachado Well and Line Camp
The son of the writer Mikhail Zagoskin, who saw Gorchakov in 1851, wrote about him: The old man was tall, thin, stooped and white as a harrier.
Andrei Ivanovich Gorchakov

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