Synonyms:
crouch
Meaning: the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
crouch, stoop, bend, bow
Meaning: bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
Synonyms:
squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch_up, hunker, hunker_down
Meaning: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
Usage examples
He dropped into a crouch and crept silently up to the tangle of bushes.
Whenever I sat, it would crouch beneath my chair or spring upon my knees, covering me with its loathsome caresses.
The Mountain Pine (Pinus monticola) is the noblest tree of the alpine zone--hardy and long-lived towering grandly above its companions and becoming stronger and more imposing just where other species begin to crouch and disappear.
When his violent paroxysms possessed him he would arrange bedroom chairs in rude resemblance of a motor-car and would crouch on the foremost of them, bent forward and staring fixedly ahead, making uncouth and ghastly noises, till the climax was reached, when, turning a complete somersault, he would lie prostrate amidst the ruins of the chairs, apparently completely satisfied for the moment.