Antonyms for crouch
kraʊtʃcrouch

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1. crouchverb

   the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body

2. crouch, stoop, bend, bowverb

   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:
   turn, accede, bow, scrunch up, defer, twist, bend, hunker down, condescend, bow down, hunker, stoop, deform, scrunch, flex, turn away, deflect, give in, lower oneself, squat, submit

3. 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"

   Synonyms:
   crump, scrunch up, crisp, bow, crease, stoop, hunker, crinkle, hunker down, bend, scrunch, thud, ruckle, squat, wrinkle

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1. crouchverb

   Synonyms:
   squat, couch, stoop, cringe, fawn, truckle

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1. confident

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

How to use crouch in a sentence?

1. Carolyn Dunford:

   I think I had been driving for about 45 minutes and at about 7:45 a.m., I saw a group of cars crawling along, i pulled up with them and there were the two lions walking towards me. One of them saw the kudu [type of large antelope] in the bushes and I saw the lion crouch.

2. Samuel Adams:

   If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

3. Harold Nicolson:

   They have pulled up armchairs and crouch low over the map, the are cutting the Baghdad railway. . It is appalling that these ignorant and irresponsible men should be cutting Asia minor to bits as if they were dividing a cake.... the happiness of millions being discarded in that way.

4. Robert Browning:

   Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph

5. Claire McCaskill:

   We have got to get out of this defensive crouch about liability litigation and get into an offensive position about making sure drivers are safe.

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