crouched

past tense of crouch
as in huddled
to lie low with the limbs close to the body the cat crouched in the bushes, waiting for the right moment to pounce on the chipmunk

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Recent Examples of crouched The dance began with Irwin crouched atop a Jeep suped up for safari, with the junior conservationist correspondingly decked in the head-to-toe khaki uniform made famous by his dad. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025 In one instance, a colleague entered Aber’s office to find an inmate crouched under his desk, according to an affidavit filed against Aber in the criminal case. Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025 Another photo from the roundup saw the Voyeurs actress crouched down while wearing a sheer beige top. Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025 These societies in southeastern Asia buried their dead mostly in flexed, tightly crouched, or squatting postures, often with traces of burning. Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025 And as Charlie Kirk fired up the crowd tossing hats, authorities say the suspect crouched and waited. ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025 The crowd crouched – then sprinted away from the canopy. Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025 And over the past nine months, a team of judges has been measuring it, pinpointing the exact location of the wave’s base, then stacking images of Slebir’s crouched pose on top of each other like a totem pole up the face of the wave. Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025 Jason Varitek crouched behind home plate. Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crouched
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  • In the streets of Khan Younis, dozens of men huddled around a single television, whistling and cheering.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • As much as the action, which is tightly cut and usually alternates confidently between characters frantically on-the-move and other characters huddled in claustrophobic spaces, the storylines are held together by the performances.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • Staryi’s command post outside Kharkiv looked less like a base than like a tech-industry office, with long-haired young men in T-shirts hunched over screens and sipping espresso drinks.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Thus, by accident, the cumbia rebajada was born alongside its slow dances, like the gavilán, or hawk, in which people dance hunched down low with their arms spread wide.
    Karla Gachet, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Crouched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crouched. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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