CROUCHES
- to lower the body stance especially by bending the legs a sprinter crouched ready to go
- lie close to the ground with the legs bent a pair of cats, crouching on the brink of a fight Aldous Huxley
- bend or bow servilely cringe
- bow especially in humility or fear bend
- stand at a low height cottages crouched along the river
- CROUCH, to stoop (to bend the body forward and down) [v]