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crouch
What does crouch mean?
crouch (verb): to bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce crouch?
/kɹaʊtʃ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does crouch come from?
From Middle English crouchen (“to bend, crouch”), variant of croken (“to bend, crook”), from crok (“crook, hook”), from Old Norse krókr (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“wicker, bend”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of crouch?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “crouch” mean?
to boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself
Not quite: that's what brag means.
to bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear
Right! That's what “crouch” means.
to bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to
Not quite: that's what incur means.
to make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance
Not quite: that's what crow means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “crouch”?
climb
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trace
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rival
Not quite: rival means something else.
stoop
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