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[ US /ˈkɹaʊtʃ/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈa‍ʊt‍ʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. bend one's back forward from the waist on down
    The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse
    She bowed before the Queen
    he crouched down
  2. sit on one's heels
    The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
    In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting
NOUN
  1. the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body

How To Use crouch In A Sentence

  • Just as Peter Crouch the binman may find his lanky frame considerably less alluring to the opposite sex. Archive 2009-07-01
  • Grace was crouched in front of a small wisp of a girl.
  • His face wore a lopsided grin, and he crouched down near the fire and set to work upon the other shoe.
  • Rubber blanks exploded through the bush I was crouching behind, but none hit me.
  • No such consideration is given the croucher in real life. To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • Between songs he crouches and we can all hear the plunk plunk of strings being tuned.
  • I went into the bathroom, crouched over the toilet and threw up.
  • The carriage had become so smoky that passengers had to crouch to the floor to breathe, he said. Times, Sunday Times
  • He quotes from the diary: ‘a doodlebug comes over our bus and we all crouch down to avoid the shattering of the window-glass.’
  • Falling to the ground in a graceful crouch was a slender figure, defiantly feminine.
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