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Hunchback vs Stooping - What's the difference?

hunchback | stooping |

As nouns the difference between hunchback and stooping

is that hunchback is one who is stooped or hunched over while stooping is the act of one who stoops.

As an adjective stooping is

bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

As a verb stooping is

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hunchback

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who is stooped or hunched over.
  • A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.
  • (vulgar) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.

    • Synonyms

    * humpback * stooped

    Derived terms

    * hunchbacked

    stooping

    English

    Alternative forms

    * stouping

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who stoops.
  • * 2011 , Don DeLillo, The Names
    • This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way.

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