STOOP TO

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stoop to mean? 

• STOOP TO (verb)
  The verb STOOP TO has 1 sense:

1. make concessions to

  Familiarity information: STOOP TO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOOP TO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make concessions to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "stoop to" is one way to...):

condescend; patronise; patronize (treat condescendingly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

It was plain that he could have no serious views, no true attachment, by fixing himself in a situation which he must know she would never stoop to.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Thank God that you never had to stoop to it, Mary.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Indeed, early as it was when Dame Eliza began to stir, it seemed that others could be earlier still, for the door was ajar, and the learned student of Cambridge had taken himself off, with a mind which was too intent upon the high things of antiquity to stoop to consider the four-pence which he owed for bed and board.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nor would he stoop to give a reason in such a case, but would answer all remonstrances with a curl of his lip and a flash of his dark eyes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had but sat down to a flask of malvoisie and a mortress of brawn, as is my use about this hour, when there comes a cherking, and I find my wine over my legs and the flask in my lap, and then as I stoop to clip it there comes another cursed cherk, and there is a mortress of brawn stuck fast to the nape of my neck.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)