crouch
Other forms: crouched; crouching; crouches
To crouch is to bend your knees, pull your body in, and sit on your heels. This position is called a crouch. You might crouch down to pet a kitten or catch a baseball.
The catcher in baseball stands in a low crouch, waiting for the pitch. Little kids might crouch in a closet or under a table when they play hide and seek. People crouch when they’re in a small space or to keep themselves warm. When you’re in a crouch, your body takes up less space. Crouch comes from the French crochir, "become bent or crooked," after the shape of a hook or a croche.
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the act of bending low with the limbs close to the bodytype of:bendingthe act of bending something
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bend one's back forward from the waist on down
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sit on one's heelssynonyms: hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat
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Learn these words from the short story by Toni Cade Bambara (Inside: Level B, Unit 7). Here are our links to the selections of "More Than a Game": Play Ball!, Analysis of Baseball; Singing and Stretching, Roberto Clemente, Raymond's Run, Pressure Is a Privilege Here are our links to the units of Level B: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7, Unit 8 Here are our links to the Inside books: Level A, Level B, Level C Here is our link to a list of academic vocabulary for Inside: Academic Vocabulary
When Claudia Kincaid and her brother run away from home, they find themselves caught up in a mystery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Learn these words from E. L. Konigsburg's award-winning novel.