crouch
crouch is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.
- intransitive verb. To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
- transitive verb. To sign with the cross; to bless.
- transitive verb. To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
- noun. the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body
- verb. sit on one's heels
"In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"
"The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
- verb. bend one's back forward from the waist on down
"he crouched down"
"She bowed before the Queen"
Synonyms
hunker, scrunch, squat, bend, bow, stoop
Common word forms
crouched, croucher, crouches, crouching
Words from these letters
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