(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.
Hunch
Definition:
(n.) A hump; a protuberance.
(n.) A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.
(n.) A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
(v. t.) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
(v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
Example Sentences:
(1) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(2) Global 'abnormality', hunching (rigid arching of back), hindlimb abduction, forepaw myoclonus, stereotyped lateral head movements, backing, and immobility occurred significantly only in drug-treated rats.
(3) We provide evidence that bicoid (bcd) and hunch-back (hb) gene products, as well as at least one other activator, are needed to activate Kr expression in the central domain.
(4) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
(5) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
(6) Clinical signs in mice were squinting and distended testes in males, and in rats, rapid respiration (all doses), squinting, and hunching.
(7) At one point Serena hunched over and covered her face with her hands.
(8) "My hunch is that China is going to interpret this as war," he said.
(9) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
(10) "My hunch is that if this was a serious crisis we would see indications of it," she said.
(11) Analysis of official statistics by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (Cresc) at Manchester University backs up Martin's hunch: London and the south-east have come roaring out of the crash, and now account for a greater share of growth than they did even during the boom.
(12) Silent, head bowed, shoulders hunched in an ill-fitting suit, Oscar Pistorius would have attracted little attention from a casual observer unaware of his central role in the drama under way on Monday, in a nondescript ground floor courtroom in Pretoria.
(13) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
(14) The only real calculation is the division of 530,000 by anticipated audience size; if the pen-pushers have it right, their budget wins - and if I had to play a hunch, I'd say it probably will.
(15) If they do, my hunch is that it's because their intuitions haven't kept pace with the extent that mobile technology has pervaded our lives, or with the scale of the data that outfits such as the NSA have been accumulating.
(16) It would be nice if we could say this was because the media had learned their lessons and recognised the importance of scientific evidence, rather than one bloke's hunch.
(17) Griff is giggling so much he has to stand in the corner of the studio, hunched over in hysteria. '
(18) His magazine, launched last year on a hunch and a shoestring, covers music, but not just music - it will interview Matt Groening or Anthony Beevor or the creator of the iPod alongside rock stars chosen for their articulacy rather than their looks, such as Morrissey, Elvis Costello and Neil Tennant (who once worked with Hepworth and Ellen at Smash Hits).
(19) It means that his tactical hunches, l ike taking off Jasper Cillessen and putting Tim Krul in goal for the penalty shoot-out against Costa Rica , tend to come off.
(20) These things should be set out long before the government makes any decision, and certainly before any more senior ministers diminish themselves by making off-the-cuff assertions rooted in hunches or Labour party politics.