Synonyms for hunker
ˈhʌŋ kərhun·ker

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1. 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, crinkle, hunker down, bend, scrunch, thud, ruckle, squat, crouch, wrinkle

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hunkernoun

   Synonyms:
   [U. S.] conservative, fogy

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1. Peter Hotez:

   This winter -- this November, December, January, February -- could be the worst time in our epidemic, get ready to hunker down.

2. Muriel Bowser:

   We have throughout this storm encouraged our residents to stay off the streets, and for the most part they have heeded that, they prepared to hunker down, and they did.

3. Jennifer Aniston:

   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.

4. Brendan Peregrine:

   We can hunker down for days.

5. Ashish Jha:

   We're not there yet and the variants make it particularly concerning, we really do have to hunker down for a few more weeks. We are very close to the finish line but we can't stop yet.