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hunched
[huhnch] 
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hunch
[huhnch]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cower, crouch |
| Synonyms: | arch, bend, bow, curve, draw in, draw together, huddle, hump, lean, scrooch down, squat, stoop, tense |
| Antonyms: | stand, straighten |
| Main Entry: | bent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curved |
| Synonyms: | angled, arced, arched, arciform, bowed, contorted, crooked, curvilinear, doubled over, drooping, droopy, hooked, humped, hunched, inclined, limp, looped, round, rounded, sinuous, slouchy, slumped, stooped, twined, twisted, warped, wilted |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | bow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend over |
| Synonyms: | arch, bob, cower, crook, curtsy, curve, debase, dip, do obeisance, droop, duck, genuflect, hunch, incline, nod, round, stoop |
| Main Entry: | crouch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stoop low; cringe |
| Synonyms: | bend, bend down, bow, cower, dip, duck, grovel, huddle, hunch, hunker down, kneel, quail, quat, scrooch down, squat, stoop, wince |
| Antonyms: | stretch |
| Main Entry: | slump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decline, sink |
| Synonyms: | bend, blight, cave in, collapse, crash, decay, deteriorate, droop, drop, fall, fall off, go down, go downhill, go to ruin, hunch, keel over, loll, pitch, plummet, plunge, reach new low, sag, slide, slip, slouch, topple, tumble |
| Antonyms: | ascend, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | squat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lower body by bending knees |
| Synonyms: | bow, cower, crouch, hunch, hunker down, perch, roost, settle, sit, stoop |
| Antonyms: | straighten, stretch |
| Main Entry: | stoop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bow down |
| Synonyms: | be bowed, be servile, bend, bow, cringe, crouch, descend, dip, duck, hunch, incline, kneel, lean, relax, sink, slant, squat |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | hunker down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | squat down |
| Synonyms: | crouch, get down, hunch, hunch down, hunker, scrunch, squat |
| Main Entry: | bowed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent |
| Synonyms: | arched, bulging, curved, hunched, rounded |
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