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hunch
To bend or draw up into a hump:
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squat
Squat is to crouch down with your knees bent and your heels touching or close to your butt, or to move into a piece of property illegally.
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stoop
To stand or walk, especially habitually, with the head and upper back bent forward.
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scrunch
To hunch, huddle, or squeeze
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hunker
To squat close to the ground; crouch. Usually used with down:
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grovel (related)
To abase oneself before another person.
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hunker-down
(Idiomatic) To take shelter; to prepare oneself for some eventuality; to focus on a task.
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bow (related)
To bend or curve downward; stoop.
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cringe
To draw back, bend, crouch, etc., as when afraid; shrink from something dangerous or painful
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stretch (antonym)
To increase the quantity of by admixture or dilution:
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bend
To turn or be turned from a straight line or from some direction or position
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fawn
To fawn means to pay extra attention to something in an overly affectionate way.
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truckle
(Intransitive) to act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior
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scrunch up
sit on one's heels
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in-front (related)
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kneel (related)
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flinch
To start or wince involuntarily, as from surprise or pain.
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quail
To draw back in fear; lose heart or courage; cower
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couch
(Surgery) To remove (a cataract) by using a needle to push down the crystalline lens of the eye
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cower
To shrink and tremble, as from someone's anger, threats, or blows; cringe
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dip
To slope downward; decline:
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duck
To lower, turn, or bend (the head, body, etc.) suddenly, as in avoiding a blow or in hiding
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huddle
(Intransitive) To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
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high (related)
In or at a great value.
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Crouch Sentence Examples

  • He patted her arm then moved to crouch beside Elise, waiting.

  • The creature looked confused but shifted from its guarded crouch to a kneeling position.

  • Gabe lowered himself into a crouch a few feet away, recalling the last time he'd been on a beach.

  • Older children may crouch in a squatting position.

  • Professors and students gather every morning for the daily prayer; then the professors take their seats at the foot of the pillars of the great court and the students crouch on mats at their feet.

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