Dictionary Definition
crouch n : the act of bending low with the limbs
close to the body
Verb
1 bend one's back forward from the waist on down;
"he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man
stooped to pick up the girl's purse" [syn: stoop, bend, bow]
2 sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the
women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to
protect themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: squat, scrunch, scrunch up,
hunker, hunker
down]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
Old English crūċ.Noun
- A cross.
Etymology 2
Perhaps from Old French crochir.Verb
- To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with
legs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey or in fear.
- We crouched behind the low wall until the squad of soldiers had passed by.
- To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
- To sign with the cross; to bless.
- To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
Translations
To bend down
- Finnish: kyykistyä
- French: se tapir, s'accroupir, se recroqueviller
- Portuguese: agachar
To bend servilely
To sign with the cross
To bend, or cause to bend
- Finnish: kumartua
Noun
Translations
- Finnish: kyykky
Extensive Definition
Crouch is a family
name.
People with the family name Crouch
- Andrae Crouch, US Gospel musician
- Anna Maria Crouch, 18th Century actress in London and mistress of George, Prince of Wales
- Bill Crouch (baseball 1910)
- Bill Crouch (baseball 1939-45)
- Bob Crouch, pastor of Pismo Beach Community Presbyterian Church
- Eric Crouch, American football player
- Frederick Nicholls Crouch, English composer and cellist
- Jan Crouch, wife of Paul Crouch, and co-founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network
- Jared Crouch, Australian rules football player
- Paul Crouch, founder of the largest Christian Television Network, Trinity Broadcasting Network
- Paul Crouch, Telecoms UK
- Peter Crouch, English footballer who plays for Liverpool F.C.
- Roger K. Crouch, US payload specialist, with considerable space flight experience
- Sandra Crouch, US gospel musician
- Stanley Crouch, American music critic
- Suzanne Crouch, representative in the Indiana House of Representatives
Fictional
- Barty Crouch Senior, fictional character in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
- Barty Crouch, Jr., fictional character in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
surname nocat
crouch in German: Crouch
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
bend,
bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, bob, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow
to, couch, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, cringe to, crouch before,
curtsy, dip, do homage, do obeisance,
duck, fawn, flatter, flinch, genuflect, genuflection, get down,
grovel, huddle, hug the earth, hunch, hunch down, hunker down,
kneel, kneel to, kneeling, knuckle to, kowtow, lick the dust, lickspittle, lie low, lie
prone, lie prostrate, lie under, nod, obeisance, prostration, quail, reverence, salaam, scrouch down, skulk, slink, sneak, squat, stoop, supination, swat, toadeat, toady, truckle, truckle to, underlie, wallow, welter, wince