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Webster 1828 Edition


Crouching

CROUCHING

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ppr.
Bending; stooping; cringing.

Definition 2024


crouching

crouching

English

Verb

crouching

  1. present participle of crouch

Noun

crouching (plural crouchings)

  1. The action of the verb crouch.
    • 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down
      [] so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a warmer, brighter region of mutual liking and approval, until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear.

Adjective

crouching

  1. That crouches or crouch.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon