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Definition: Crouched |
CrouchedAdjective1. Squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crouched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references) |
Synonyms: CrouchedSynonyms: crouching (adj), huddled (adj), hunkered (adj), hunkered down (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lowness | Adjective: low, neap, debased; nether, nether most; flat, level with the ground; lying low; Verb: crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate; (horizontal). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crouched |
| English words defined with "crouched": bend, bow ♦ concealment, cover, covert, crouch, Crutched, Crutched friar ♦ screen, stoop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crouched": warned protected. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He could be behind the wall, inside the water barrel, beneath a pile of leaves, up in the tree, squatting down behind the car, concealed in a hollow, or crouched behind any one of a hundred bushes. (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Boy (full-length portrait, facing right) crouched down feeding a caged rabbit while a girl watches on] Esther Bubley. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | French soldiers on patrol crouched in thicket outside Diên Biên Phu, Vietnam. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Group portrait of a woman and three men, crouched outside, smiling; one of the men is displaying a dish of panned gold. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Locomotives. Crouched in a turbine intake casing, a welder does his bit in the production of essential war equipment. The plant in which he works produces tanks, locomotives, and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Charlotte Hall Military Academy. Football player, crouched. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | On entering Fantine crouched down in a corner motionless and silent, like a frightened dog. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He crouched down between the sheets, glad of their tepid glow. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The cat crouched back and licked its lips and washed its face and whiskers. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Crouched" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 76.50% of the time. "Crouched" is used about 451 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 76.5% | 345 | 15,401 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 17.52% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.99% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Total | 100.00% | 451 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crouched": crouched friar. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "crouched": half-crouched. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crouched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蹲下 (Crouch, Crouching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | hockte (cowered, haunched, squatted), duckte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שפוף (bent, droopy, squat, stooping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouchedcray chircit (crouching). (various references) hopkrupen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Crouched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crouchety, cruachem, Cruche, rouched. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crouched" (pronounced krou"kht) |
| 3 | -ou" kh t | couched, vouched. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-h-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: couched, coucher. | |
-2 letters: chored, crouch, douche, ochred, ouched, rouche, ruched. | |
-3 letters: chord, chore, codec, coder, cored, couch, coude, credo, crude, curch, cured, decor, douce, duroc, horde, occur, ocher, ochre, ruche, uredo. | |
-4 letters: cero, code, coed, cord, core, croc, crud, cued, curd, cure, deco, doer, dore, dour, duce, dure, duro, echo, ecru, euro, herd, hero. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-h-o-r-u" | |
+4 letters: orchidaceous, unchronicled. | |
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