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- noun Plural form of
crouch . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
crouch .
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Examples
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"A cat, who all ready to spring crouches, that is of our beautiful little mountain the name-likeness."
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923
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As she trembles and crouches, she wonders what could possibly be next.
life's little love taps MaryAnne Kolton 2011
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When they flap, he crouches down in terror and starts to run.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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She says that at the end of the movie she crouches down in an effort to find her bag of trash.
Diana Castle: Tell-A-Vision Diana Castle 2011
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Jusepe de Ribera's red chalk drawing is one of the show's more intriguing moments, showing an old man tied to a tree, reaching out an open hand while a figure crouches behind him, its back turned: an allegory or simply a collision of shorthand for other works?
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For a moment he watches them with great golden eyes, then crouches low in the frigid grass, wiggling his rear end as he builds momentum for a pounce.
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It was hidden, and still, the way a predator crouches and waits for the right moment.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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In this work, a naked man looking terribly lonely crouches under a girl's cardigan as his eyes look into nowhere.
A Frenzy of Contemporary Art Margaret Studer 2011
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The first chapter opens in a fetid Scottish prison where young Corrag crouches in chains preparing to be burned at the stake.
Susan Fletcher's "Corrag," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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Moding Ngolapus tightens a string round its scraggy neck, while his friend takes a roughly made bow, crouches and aims a blunt arrow from about 3ft away.
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