[
US
/ˈkɹaʊtʃ/
]
[ UK /kɹˈaʊtʃ/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈaʊtʃ/ ]
VERB
-
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 -
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
- 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.
