verb, noun
verb [V] [usually +adv./prep.] to lower your body close to the ground by bending your legs under you:
He crouched down beside her. * Doyle crouched behind a hedge.
crouched adjective:
She sat crouched in a corner.
PHRASALVERBS
crouch over sb/sth to bend over sb/sth so that you are very close to them or it:
He crouched over the papers on his desk.
noun [sing.] a crouching position:
She dropped to a crouch.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for crouch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does crouch appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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