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Stooped vs Stoped - What's the difference?

stooped | stoped |

As verbs the difference between stooped and stoped

is that stooped is past tense of stoop while stoped is past tense of stope.

As an adjective stooped

is in a bent bodily position, hunched.

stooped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (stoop)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • in a bent bodily position, hunched
  • * {{quote-book
    • , passage=He still looks wonderfully young, despite his awkward, shuffling, slinking walk, and his stooped shoulders. , page=121 , title=Beaconsfield: In Society - in Parliament - in Literature , author=George Makepeace Towle , publisher=Appleton , year=1901}}

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    stoped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stope)

    • stope

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 318,
    • The other smell that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes , from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.

    Derived terms

    * stope assay plan * stope board * stope fillings * stope hoist * stope pillar

    Verb

  • (mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.
  • (mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

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