crouch

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Gutcher fighting out of a crouch was able to land punches only when he forced Kauffman to the ropes.

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  1. intransitive verb To stoop, especially with the knees bent: crouched over the grate, searching for his keys.
  2. intransitive verb To press the entire body close to the ground with the limbs bent: a cat crouching near its prey.
  3. intransitive verb To bend servilely or timidly; cringe.
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  • The assassins walked in a crouch, their machetes raised high ONCE in reach of Doc, they paused If I don't make a clean job with the first stroke," Bergman muttered, "dip your own knife in the blood. —  034 - The Fantastic Island
  • We both came up in a crouch, and Holmes seized my shoulder. —  The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 01
  • And that was when the gunfire ripped through the air I was in mid-crouch, crawling down a rusted fire escape, when the sound of the gunfire nearly made me topple over. —  tell No one
  • The second time he had been approaching a Buick in a crouch, and when he realized it was empty, he had stood up and started to turn to say the coast was clear. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 04 - April 1996
  • But Doc was far from falling in that category A crouch, a silent spring upward, and he had grasped the top, calculating neatly enough to avoid the needled tip. —  007 - The Lost Oasis
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stance ·  snarl ·  posture ·  pose

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crouch:   crouched ·  crouching ·  crouches
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English crouchen, probably from Old North French *crouchir, to become bent, variant of Old French crochir, from croche, hook; see crochet.

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  1. Also dial. crooch; from Middle English crouchen, crucchen (for *crūchen?), unassibilated crouken, crouch, bend; a variant of croken, crook, bend, the unusual change of vowel (ō to ū = ou) being due perhaps to the influence of crouchen, cross (see crouch), or of crucche, crutch (see crutch). Cf. crutch.
  2. from Middle English crouche, cruche, a cross: see cross, n., etymology (3).
  3. from Middle English crouchen, cruchen, cross, etc.: see cross, v., etymology (3).
 

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