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Crouching
CROUCHING
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Definition 2024
crouching
crouching
English
Verb
crouching
- present participle of crouch
Noun
crouching (plural crouchings)
- The action of the verb crouch.
- 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down
- […] so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a warmer, brighter region of mutual liking and approval, until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear.
- 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down
Adjective
crouching
- That crouches or crouch.
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon