Crossword clues for crouching
crouching
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.
Wiktionary
That crouches or crouch. n. The action of the verb '''crouch'''. v
(present participle of crouch English)
WordNet
adj. squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down" [syn: crouched, huddled, hunkered, hunkered down]
Wikipedia
Crouching can mean:
- List_of_human_positions#Crouching, a human posture
- Al-Jathiya, a sura in the Qur'an
Usage examples of "crouching".
Those few who were up were crouching over faded fires, stirring them into new flame.
Mage, crouching by Dacey, gave a lip-wrinkled snarl but held his place, enough of a warning that the boy backed away a step.
The men who were crouching over the leader's body obviously hadn't found the dart yet, not from the looks they were giving Dacey.
Kelyn said, crouching by the woman with a suddenly heightened awareness of how strange she must be to this Atlian wife and mother, of how awkwardly her tongue still curled around the language.
Kelyn chose a spot right next to the angled, concealed mouth of it, crouching in the grasses and taking the time to stroke the wet stems upright, where they did a fair job of hiding her without any help from magic.
She bent at the waist, limber enough to gather the tools without crouching down—but not quite endowed with enough hands.
Druid still, the way he'd gone to crouching against the ground, frozen in fear, utterly unable to decide which direction might be the safest.
They were an announcement of some importance, and he was on his feet now, braced against the reverberations in the earth but not with that look of crouching panic.
She entered the crowded chamber, pushing in beside Dayna and crouching for a closer look at Carey, checking his torso, looking for a wound to cause the bright frothy blood she saw.
He stepped over the back of his crouching dog, and the animal rose beneath him.
Most of the windows were dark, but there was enough moonlight for the riflemen crouching there to see the street quite well.
Stretcher-bearers—military servants—were hauling men back, crouching to carry them without exposing themselves over the higher northern lip of the laneway.
Staenbridge stepped off his crouching dog and walked down behind the line, the banner by his side.
The commander of Company C had backed his troopers half a dozen paces, so that they could load crouching and pop up to fire, but they were still losing men.
Around the Settler stood generals and noblemen, a few Bedouin chiefs in goathair robes and ha'ik, mullahs in black, servants with flasks of iced sherbert, crouching clerks and accountants with paper and pen and abacus.