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Adjective crouching has 1 sense
- crouched, crouching, huddled, hunkered, hunkered down - squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down"
Antonyms: erect, vertical, upright (indirect, via unerect)
Verb crouch has 2 senses
- crouch, stoop, bend, bow - bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
--1 is one way to bend, flex
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down - sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
--2 is one way to sit, sit down
Sample sentences:
The children crouch in the rocking chair
There crouch some children in the rocking chair
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