crouches

Meaning of crouches

verb, 3rd person present
  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
plural noun
  1. a crouching stance or posture.
    he dropped into a defensive crouch

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

Information about crouches

  • The singular form of crouches is: crouche.
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Hyphenation of crouches

crouches

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

crouches synonyms

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

Anagrams of crouches

couchers

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