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• Verbo frasal usado para indicar queda moral ou perda de dignidade ao praticar uma ação considerada abaixo dos próprios padrões. Também pode significar rebaixar-se a fazer algo indigno.

A phrasal verb used to indicate lowering oneself morally or in dignity to do something considered beneath one's standards.

incontável · intransitivo · phrasal, inseparável

1. Lower oneself morallyformal

   To lower one's moral or ethical standards to do something considered beneath one's dignity.

   Rebaixar-se

   • I would never stoop to lying to get what I want.
   • He stooped to cheating on the exam to pass the course.
   • She refused to stoop to their level of rudeness.

   Sinônimoscondescendlower oneself

2. Bend down physicallyformal

   To bend one's body forward and downward.

   Curvar-se

   • He stooped to pick up the fallen coin.
   • She stooped to tie her shoelaces.
   • The gardener stooped to pull out the weeds.

   Sinônimosbendbowcrouchduckhunchsquat

   Antônimosrisestandstraighten

Verbo basestoop