crouched

Meaning of crouched

verb, past tense
  1. adopt a position where the knees are bent and the upper body is brought forward and down, typically in order to avoid detection or to defend oneself.
    we crouched down in the trench
    Leo was crouched before the fire

late Middle English: perhaps from Old French crochir ‘be bent’, from croche (see crotch).

Information about crouched

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of crouched

crouched

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • crouched is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

crouched synonyms

Meaning crouching:

crouching, huddled, hunkered

Meaning crouch down in fear:

cower

Meaning bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner:

cringe

Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:

shrink

Meaning crowd together; nestle closely:

huddle

Meaning crouch or squat:

scooch

Words that rhyme with crouched

accroached, ached, appeached, approached, areached, attached, bached, beached, bellyached, bleached, breached, broached, cached, coached, detached, empeached, empleached, encroached, forereached, headreached, impeached, impleached, incoached, leached, mustached, nonattached, outcoached, outpreached, outreached, overattached, overbleached, overcoached, overreached, panached, peached, photobleached, pleached, poached, preached, reached, reattached, reproached, roached, semiattached, semibleached, semidetached, stomached, teached, unapproached, unattached

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