crouch

«crouch» in Mova's school dictionary: to bend your knees and lower your body close to the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (crouch, crouches, crouched, crouching); noun (a crouch)

meaning for a pupil

1) To crouch means to bend your knees and lower your body close to the ground, leaning forward a little. tree →

2) A crouch is that low, bent position. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE and sport: sprinters crouch at the start of a race; goalkeepers crouch ready to dive. In safety drills: in an earthquake, «drop, cover and hold on» (crouch under a sturdy table); in a fire, crouch low because smoke rises; during lightning with no shelter, crouch low and away from tall things. In nature, cats crouch before they pounce. Phrases: crouch down, crouch behind, in a crouch.

examples

• The cat crouched low, ready to pounce. tree →
• Crouch down under your desk during the earthquake drill. tree →
• We crouched behind the bush during hide-and-seek. tree →
• Sprinters crouch at the starting line. tree →
• Stay low and crouch if there is smoke. tree →
• I crouched to tie my shoelace. tree →
• The young man crouched low to the ground. tree →

note

Regular verb: crouched, crouching. Similar: squat (sitting on your heels), kneel (resting on your knees), duck (lower your head quickly).

In the corpora

• Crouch low, and roll when you fall instead of slamming down a stiff arm.
• They can do nought except crouch under the captives, and fall under the slain.
• He croucheth, he boweth down, and the helpless fall into his mighty claws.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «crouch» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.