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Synonyms for hunker down
hun·ker down
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Princeton's WordNet
squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker downverb
sit on one's heels
"In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
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crump, scrunch up, crisp, bow, crease, stoop, hunker, crinkle, bend, scrunch, thud, ruckle, squat, crouch, wrinklehunker downverb
take shelter
"During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut"
Synonyms:
scrunch, crouch, hunker, scrunch up, squathunker downverb
hold stubbornly to a position
"The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down"
Synonyms:
scrunch, crouch, hunker, scrunch up, squat
Matched Categories
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shelter in place
southern
a storm is coming so we hunkered down for a while.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#6335 | bow | |
#6506 | bend | |
#11793 | crisp | |
#20390 | wrinkle | |
#26161 | crouch | |
#27478 | squat | |
#29367 | crease | |
#45397 | thud | |
#47721 | stoop | |
#50404 | crump | |
#65224 | crinkle | |
#106852 | hunker | |
#154932 | scrunch | |
#304166 | ruckle |
How to use hunker down in a sentence?
We can hunker down for days.
They had two couches by a table, and we stayed there the entire time, whenever they say, 'OK, we'll update you in an hour,' it's just not enough time for us to be able to go all the way back to where we're staying and back, so we just had to hunker down here.
The president wanted everyone to know where this virus is so that people would be aware if they were gonna travel to that area, that that area had a very significant amount of COVID-19 or the coronavirus, and so its really to make Americans aware about traveling to New York, but also make it clear to the people who are in that area to protect them selves following the guidelines, to really stay home and really hunker down, stay at home and really follow the washing of your hands and not touching your face.
The career was one thing. I didn't know what was coming, and that's been nothing but blessed. ... It was more personal stuff that I had expectations about that sort of shape-shifted, so to speak, that was what was jarring, that we all had an idea of what the future was going to be, and we were going to go hunker down and focus on this or that, and then it all just changed overnight, and that was it.
The southern and northern extremes of the trail are the areas where The Laundrie family attorney really can just hunker down and get lost out there.
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