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crouch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crouch \Crouch\ (krouch; 129), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crouched (kroucht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crouching.] [OE. cruchen, crouchen, crouken; cf. E. creep, G. krauchen, kriechen, or E. crook to bend, also crouch to cross.]
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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.
Now crouch like a cur.
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To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe. ``A crouching purpose.''
--Wordsworth.Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor?
--Shak.
Crouch \Crouch\, v. t. [OE. cruchen, crouchen, from cruche, crouche, cross. Cf. Crosier, Crook.]
To sign with the cross; to bless. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.-
To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
She folded her arms across her chest, And crouched her head upon her breast.
--Colerige.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., probably from Old French crochir "become bent, crooked," from croche "hook" (see crochet). Related: Crouched; crouching. As a noun, from 1590s.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) A cross. vb. (context obsolete English) To sign with the cross; bless. Etymology 2
n. 1 A bent or stooped position. 2 A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to crouch. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with legs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. 2 (context intransitive English) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe. 3 (context intransitive English) To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
WordNet
n. the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body
v. bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse" [syn: stoop, bend, bow]
sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: squat, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down]
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Wikipedia
Crouch is a family name.
Crouch is a family name. It can also be an action (verb), meaning to duck or squat
Crouch may also refer to:
Usage examples of "crouch".
From where Iain crouched among the trees, he could see no difference between allowing the Abenaki to kill the lass and killing her himself.
As he crouched in hiding among the unkempt shrubbery which so short a while since had been the delight and pride of the wife he no longer recalled, an Arab and an Abyssinian wheeled their mounts close to his position as they slashed at each other with their swords.
Only once did Brant look back at the crouching monster, whose agelong vigil was now drawing to its close.
Rostow, Mac, Bundy and Hot Stick were standing by with their weapons pointed at the congregation of Aguaruna as casually as it could be done without being rude, trying to provide comfort for Felix, who crouched next to the Stele, perspiring heavily over a soldering iron, a converter and a picnic cooler full of two dozen size-D batteries.
Fedafer of Ourdh, lord of the well-watered land, master of the great river, provider for the mouths of the millions, favored first son of Auros, living consort of Gingo-La, august excellence of the south wind, bringer of rain, sower of seed, king of Ajmer, king of Bogra, king of Patwa, high lord of Shogemessar, Emperor Banwi the Great, was crouched, shivering with fear, on a blue silk couch in the apartment of his Aunt Haruma.
Daulo and Akim left, she crouched down against the building and made a more leisurely scan of the area.
Like stones falling into water, the Alabamians crouched way down, where they were hidden by the cornstalks.
Judging his distance the anchorman crouched, then leapt onto the jetty, wrapping his rope round a bollard while the oarsmen backed water.
The three bandits, Alexandre, Richard, and Alfred, who had been crouching low, sprang forward and threw themselves upon Madame Angelin with such hungry, wolfish violence that she was thrown to the ground.
Nom Anor studied this image with a certain satisfaction, as did Vergere, who crouched on the chamber floor beyond the viewspider.
He threw another blazebomb into the ranks and it blew as he crouched, ants flying everywhere but still more and more from the cube in the sand, globular eyes, and he aimed more carefully and missed too much adrenalin but the next bomb flew true with a slight arcing trajectory only meters above their heads and down into them and right into the mouth of the cube, right on the upward sloping ramp, and blew just right.
Gwen had been crouching in front of the high chair, trying without much success to coax some applesauce into Tess.
He had looked twice at Aspar where he crouched in a brake of ferns, but gave no indication of having seen him.
He stood in a balanced partial crouch, alert, pliant, with his arms partly extended and his baton, a light, slender wand of nightflower wood with a cup-shaped hilt of basketwork at one end, resting across them.
Not all the passengers possessed the necessary spirit to crouch out on the beakhead of the ship and perform their necessary functions there, with the warm sea lapping at their arse.