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stoop to something

to do something that makes your moral standards lower They have stooped to using threats of violence in order to get their way.

Usage notes: often used in the forms stoop to someone's level or stoop to the level of dong something: The president shouldn't stoop to the level of exchanging insults.

Etymology: from the literal meaning of stoop (to bend forward and down to make yourself smaller)

See also: stoop

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Certainly, who hath a state to repair, may not despise small things; and commonly it is less dishonorable, to abridge petty charges, than to stoop to petty gettings. The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context "It's not set right; handle's too high; see how he has to stoop to it," said one. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context She would not stoop to admit that she meant to rival Gilbert in schoolwork, because that would have been to acknowledge his existence which Anne persistently ignored; but the rivalry was there and honors fluctuated between them. Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context			stir-crazy stitch stitch in time saves nine stitch onto stitch up stock stock in trade stock up stock with stoke up stoked on stolen stolen fruit is sweetest stomach stomp stomp on stone stone dead stone sober Stone the crows! stone's throw away stool stoop stoop down stoop over stoop to stoop to doing stop stop at stop at nothing stop behind stop by stop cold stop dead in tracks stop for stop from doing stop in tracks stop off stop on stop on a dime stop one dead in tracks stop over stop short stop short of stop short of a place stop short of doing stop the music stop the rot stop up stop, look, and listen storage			Stool tests Stool-ball Stoolball stooled stooled stooled stooled stoolie stoolie stoolies stooling stooling stooling stooling stoolpigeon stools stools stools stools Stoom Stoom en Gas Centrale Stoomschip STOOOP stoop stoop stoop stoop stoop stoop down stoop over stoop to stoop to doing stoopball stooped stooped stooped stooped stooper stooping stooping stooping stooping stoops stoops stoops stoops Stoor Stoor Stoors stoory stoory stooshie stoothing stootsiekte Stoozer Stoozers Stoozing stop stop stop stop

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