Thesaurus results for CROUCHED

crouched

verb

past tense of crouch

as in huddled

to lie low with the limbs close to the body the cat crouched in the bushes, waiting for the right moment to pounce on the chipmunk

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Recent Examples of crouched After his rep against defensive end Odafe Oweh, Tunsil grabbed his left arm and crouched in obvious pain. — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026 Those inside the room crouched down on the floor in the darkness, waiting for help for 30 minutes. — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026 Every few feet, the cats stopped and sat on their hindquarters, or crouched down out of sight. — Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026 After getting broken to fall behind 2-4 in the third, Djokovic attempted to knock a ball back to the ball boy, who was crouched beside the umpire’s chair. — Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026 The image in question features Grande crouched on the ground while sucking a lollipop and loving a happy black dog. — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026 The first showed him walking hand-in-hand with his sons, and the second showed Jack crouched down in a church pew as one of his sons played with toys, surrounded by coloring books and stickers. — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 22 June 2026 Peters crouched down and used a little body language to try to coax the ball fair. — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026 Brandon Wolf crouched in the corner of the nightclub bathroom for what felt like forever as gunshots rang out. — Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2026

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Once, the tired, poor and huddled masses from all over the world have helped grow this nation, and our beloved city.

— Nancy Hagans, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra have huddled inside their homes for days on end, unable to leave because of the threat posed by Israeli settlers.

— Joseph Krauss, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

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At the arrow’s impact, the buck hunched and steered dead for the woods.

— Jeff Murray, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2026
At the North Carolina booth, whose display was sponsored in part by a Nascar team, a visitor, his shoulders hunched in anger, asked why the video monitors in the booth originally included images of the Confederate flag.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

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