What does "stoop" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection. Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong. Dryden. These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome. Addison.
2. 3.To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. "She stoops to conquer." Goldsmith. Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly. Bacon.
3. 4.To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop. The bird of Jove, stooped from his aëry tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. Milton.
4. 5.To sink when on the wing; to alight. And stoop with closing pinions from above. Dryden. Cowering low With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing. Milton.
5. 6.To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body. "Have stooped my neck." Shak.
6. 7.To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
7. 8.To cause to submit; to prostrate. [Obs.] Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears Are stooped by death; and many left alive. Chapman.
8. 9.To degrade. [Obs.] Shak.
9. 10.The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
10. 11.Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation. Can any loyal subject see With patience such a stoop from sovereignty Dryden.
11. 12.The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop. L'Estrange.