crouched
Meaning of crouched
verb, past tense
- 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
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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:
Meaning crouch down in fear:
Meaning bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner:
Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:
Meaning crowd together; nestle closely:
Meaning crouch or squat:
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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