crouch
IPA: krˈaʊtʃ
noun
- A bent or stooped position.
- (obsolete) A cross.
- A surname.
- A ghost town in California.
- A city and town in Idaho.
- A short tidal river in Essex, England.
verb
- (intransitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To bend servilely; to bow in reverence or humility.
- (obsolete) To sign with the cross; bless.
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Examples of "crouch" in Sentences
- The boy can jump and crouch.
- Crouch under the table when taking the order.
- It is the eastern terminus of the Crouch Valley Line.
- A major tributary of the River Crouch is the River Roach.
- Crouch became president of the company upon the purchase.
- A grotesque servant woman crouches to the left of the image.
- This part of the tunnel, again, you have to kind of crouch down.
- At the age of seventeen, Crouch enlisted during the Revolutionary War.
- Crouch is a hamlet in the Swale District, in the county of Kent, England.
- At the age of seventeen, Crouch was enlisted during the Revolutionary War.
- A crouched position is assumed with the tail twitching and the ears upright.
- "Just call the crouch, touch, pause, engage, and don't try to coach us," was Tialata's plea.
- Such men can "crouch" with impunity, there is no one to run them down and no law to punish them.
- "What's impressed me the most is that the folks have not gotten into a kind of crouch position," he said.
- But when Tabu-Tabu put up his hands after the most approved method of self-defense and dropped into a "crouch,"
- His crouch was a gathering together, an assembling of all the parts of him under the rule of the spirit of him, for the spring upward to meet in mid career this monstrous, menacing thing.
- If out in the open, squat out in a low-lying area on the tips of your toes in a "crouch" position, away from other people (electrical current can jump from one person or object to another).
- Although the NWS has, indeed, recommended the "crouch" as a last resort, the NWS's lightning expert himself, John Jensenius, told me that the advantage is slight -- not as great as some NWS websites imply.
- Refusing to call them on their bullshit, to hector them at every turn, to refute them at every opportunity, and to emerge from that defensive crouch is a sign of weakness that can be done without. cyates Says:
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