(v. i.) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.
(v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
(v. t.) To sign with the cross; to bless.
(v. t.) To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The flat in Crouch End, north London that Linda Grant bought for £92,000 in 1994 and sold for £660,000 last year.
(2) A middle-aged man crouched in front of the grave of his 17-year son who also died in battle that year.
(3) Sitting in their new flat three miles away in Crouch End, Mehmet says even friends have struggled to understand the impact that night had on them.
(4) Stoke had forced plenty of corners – six inside the opening 26 minutes – without ever really looking too threatening but they pulled a goal back when Peter Crouch got away from Kolo Touré and confidently headed home Marko Arnautovic's centre.
(5) I, Malvolio (12+) Tim Crouch brings to life one of Shakespeare's more complex minor characters in this one-man show.
(6) After Cameron wasted an overlap opportunity with a feeble cross into Elliot’s arms, Mark Hughes made an overdue substitution and sent on Peter Crouch.
(7) Yet it was the drama and controversy of Odemwingie's failed move that appeared to deflate Redknapp, who also missed out on Stoke City's Peter Crouch, another of his targets up front, and a third Tottenham player, the midfielder David Bentley.
(8) Although Crouch had possible claims for a penalty in each half, Stoke's best chance came when Marko Arnautovic sent Oussama Assaidi clear only for a poor first touch to let down the winger, on loan from Liverpool.
(9) On Friday the shadow education secretary, Andy Burnham, and the Tory MP Tracey Crouch wrote to the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, in a last-ditch attempt to get him to reconsider.
(10) At full-time, he crouched on to his haunches and stared blankly at the turf.
(11) Deployed in an attacking central midfield role behind Peter Crouch, Adam excelled, giving Newcastle quite a few early frights with his incisive through-passes and well-timed late runs into the penalty area.
(12) Following lesions performed on Day 15 of gestation, measures of maternal behavior (grouping, crouching, and nest building), pup retrieval, and pup weight gain were all impaired, but only if the lesion included the most rostral and medial aspects of the PVN.
(13) The Conservative MP Tracey Crouch, who sits on Parliament's culture, media and sport select committee, told the Mirror, "It's disappointing at a time when he's trying to encourage more women to play football that he is using derogatory terminology."
(14) These effects included a decrease in time spent near the cat compartment, with a complementary increase in time spent at maximum distance, a decrease in transits between these sections, an increase in crouching, and a decrease in grooming and rearing.
(15) Shakespeare's Globe, 30–31 May I, Cinna Tim Crouch's one-man reimaginings of the plays, intended for young audiences, are riotous.
(16) Later in the video they appear bound, with their heads down, crouching in front of an English-speaking militant, before they are murdered.
(17) Those issues were brought into focus this week when Max Stafford-Clark sounded a warning in the Guardian that his company, Out of Joint, was getting some of its lowest regional audiences even though the play, Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage , was getting warm reviews.
(18) These preceded subsequent EMG bursts during the stretch phase of crouching by about 300 ms. Third, preparation for landing from rapid lowering featured prominent and possibly selective activation of dynamic fusimotor neurones, which peaked while the animal was in mid-air and declined upon landing, and which preceded the sharp onset of EMG after landing by several hundred milliseconds.
(19) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
(20) His fears were confirmed as Geoff Cameron crossed and Crouch rose above Daryl Janmaat to direct a splendid header across the advancing Krul and into the bottom corner.
Fawn
Definition:
(n.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
(n.) The young of an animal; a whelp.
(n.) A fawn color.
(a.) Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
(v. i.) To bring forth a fawn.
(v. i.) To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon.
(n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ex-players fawning over Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
(2) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(3) The Fawn-Hooded strain of rats exhibits a hemorrhagic disorder, known as platelet storage pool deficiency.
(4) Fawns and adult deer greater than or equal to 5.5 yr had a significantly (P less than or equal to 0.05) higher intensity (means = 37 and means = 68, respectively) of infection than the 1.5- and 2.5-yr-old age groups (means = 19 and means = 26, respectively).
(5) When tested in cell electrophoresis platelets from fawn hooded bleeder rats showed a significantly lower electrophoretic mobility than normal rat platelets.
(6) This study indicates that the platelet aggregation defect described for the fawn-hooded rat strain is one that does not alter the time course of the morphologic features of hyperacute cardiac allograft rejection, and thus this platelet aggregation abnormality has no essential role in the pathogenesis of this type of tissue damage.
(7) Inoculation of the ovine RSV isolate into calves and deer fawns resulted in infection in both species, and at necropsy, pneumonic lesions were present.
(8) Following treatment with the antihypertensive, debrisoquin sulfate, the blood pressure of the fawn-hooded rats decreased until it approached the levels observed in normotensive Wistar rats.
(9) Reddish-tan and fawn-colored hyperpigmentation in tinea versicolor of this type is not due to melanin pigment.
(10) Twenty mule deer fawns (Odocoileus hemionus) were removed from their dams 48 h after birth, and hand-reared.
(11) Fawn-hooded (FH) rats develop low-renin hypertension which is preceded by a decrease in urinary kallikrein.
(12) Its sheiks and warlords, the fawned-upon princes who once did as they wished – buying up most of Streatham in the morning, beheading someone for sorcery in the afternoon – well, they’re dust and shadow now.
(13) The first steps of thrombus formation, in particular the adhesion and reversible aggregation, were significantly reduced in this model in fawn-hooded bleeder rats.
(14) The present article summarizes some comparative studies of the Fawn-Hooded (FH) rat, a potential animal model of ethanol preference, and the Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rat, a potential animal model of depression.
(15) However, 5 (28%) of the treated does and 3 (17%) of the control does failed to maintain pregnancy and fawn in 1987.
(16) But, says Grant, British “fawning” over Donald Trump alienates many Europeans, making them doubt we share their basic values.
(17) Methoxyflurane inhalation was used a total of 58 times to anesthetize 23 hand-reared mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns ranging from 25 to 85 days of age.
(18) The effect of various doses of the 5-HT agonist m-chlorophenylpiperazine (MCPP) on neuroendocrine function (prolactin and corticosterone responses) were compared in three different rat strains: Wistar, Sprague-Dawley (SD), and Fawn-Hooded (FH) rats.
(19) Infections were significantly more prevalent among fawn and yearling deer.
(20) Free speech is also increasingly curtailed in Chinese universities , publishing houses and the fawning, party-controlled news media ; foreign NGOs have been shown the door; and even mild critics of the regime have found themselves spirited into secret detention.