Definitions for crouches

crouches crouch

Spelling: [krouch]
IPA: /kraʊtʃ/

Crouches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in crouches (ccehorsu).

Definitions for crouches

noun

  1. the act of crouching.

verb (used with object)

  1. to bend low.

verb (used without object)

  1. to stoop or bend low.
  2. to bend close to the ground, as an animal preparing to spring or shrinking with fear.
  3. to bow or stoop servilely; cringe.

Origin of crouches

1175-1225; Middle English crouchen, perhaps blend of couchen to lie down (see couch) and croken to crook1

Examples for crouches

There was barely room to crouch, let alone lie down and sleep.

His brutality had made the delicacy in her crouch and sicken.

Malheiro says that whoever claimed crouch confirmed the cases of Krokodil “got her statements wrong.”

Eyes red and prison muscles bulging, a tattooed white man behind me jumped to his feet from a crouch and swatted me aside.

But out of the tail of my eye I saw him crouch, ready to leap.

Don dropped the skillet, jumped into a crouch, went for his gun.

Democrats can't slink away, or crouch, or cut and run against their own record.

He seemed to crouch on his chair, and the hand that held the paper shook.

The birds, the insects even, all life seemed to crouch, hushed and expectant.

Her mate had slowly relaxed from his crouch and was watching her.

Word Value for crouches
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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