Synonyms for hunker
ˈhʌŋ kərhun·ker

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

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. Ryan Gieselman:

   We're lucky enough to live in the center of Dauphin Island, so it's not hopefully gon na be too bad for us, i hope it really just misses us and we can go on with the rest of our summer and enjoy it, but if it hits us, just be prepared and be ready to hunker down.

2. 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.

3. Peter Hotez:

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

4. Deborah Birx:

   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.

5. Dante Biss-Grayson Halleck:

   I've got to hunker down for three months, this speech has definitely inspired me to hit the send button on the application.