stooped
If you're stooped, you're hunched or bent over. An elderly woman leaning over a walker might be described as stooped.
Very old people and those with curved, bent shoulders and backs are stooped. A witch in a fairy tale might be described as stooped, or an injured football player who staggers, stooped over with pain, off the field. The verb stoop comes from an Old English word, stupian, "to bow or bend," from a Germanic root. You might also hear a stooped person described as stoop shouldered.
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having the back and shoulders rounded; not erectsynonyms: crooked, hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stoopingunerectnot upright in position or posture
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On April 9, 1865, after a final battle that failed to break through Union forces, Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. As a brigadier general and secretary to Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Porter witnessed and recorded this event. In his report, Porter included detailed observations, letters between the opposing generals, and personal opinions—all of which served to emphasize the humanity of the moments leading up to and surrounding the formal ceremony that is now seen as the end of the Civil War. E-text available here.