Word Meanings - CROUCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

creep, G. krauchen, kriechen, or E. crook to bend, also crouch to 1. 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. Now crouch like a cur. Beau. & Fl. 2. To bend servilely;

Additional info about word: CROUCH

creep, G. krauchen, kriechen, or E. crook to bend, also crouch to 1. 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. Now crouch like a cur. Beau. & Fl. 2. To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe. "A crouching purpose." Wordsworth. Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CROUCH)

• Cower
• Shrink
• stoop
• crouch
• Cringe
• Crouch
• bend
• bow
• fawn
• grabble
• grub
• Quail
• Sink
• shrink
• cower
• succumb
• flinch
• blench
• tremble

Related words: (words related to CROUCH)

• BLENCH
  deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• CROUCHED
  Marked with the sign of the cross. Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.
• GRABBLE
  Etym: 1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden. 2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.
• FLINCHER
  One who flinches or fails.
• QUAIL
  pain, G. qual torment, OHG. quelan to suffer torment, Lith. gelti to 1. To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade. Spenser. 2. To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• SHRINKING
  from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser.
• FLINCH
  To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. (more info) 1. To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink;
• STOOPER
  One who stoops.
• SHRINKER
  One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
• CROUCH
  creep, G. krauchen, kriechen, or E. crook to bend, also crouch to 1. 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. Now crouch like a cur. Beau. & Fl. 2. To bend servilely;
• CRINGER
  One who cringes.
• TREMBLER
  One who trembles.
• COWER
  To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.
• STOOPING
  from Stoop. -- Stoop"ing*ly, adv.
• SUCCUMB
  To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
• SHRINKAGE
  1. The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement. 2. The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc. 3. Decrease in value; depreciation.
• BLENCHER
  1. One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. 2. One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.
• QUAILY
  The upland plover.
• SEA QUAIL
  The turnstone.
• SQUAIL
  To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. Southey.
• SCRINGE
  To cringe.
• UNFLINCHING
  Not flinching or shrinking; unyielding. -- Un*flinch"ing*ly, adv.