0 present participle of crouch
1 to bend your knees and lower yourself so that you are close to the ground and leaning forward slightly:
The grimace is seen in a rhesus monkey or a chimpanzee crouching from attack by a dominant.
He describes at length a land in which gleams 'the crouching tiger's eyes'.
Meanwhile, crouching in their circle of wagons down in the valley we have the unglamorous, rationalistic individualists.
Collapsing, falling to the ground, and crouching belong to this complex of behaviors.
There's a shout behind my chest, crouching, always ready.
Gaunt and crouching, the men here are clearly inferior in class and possess little virility.
He was in a condition so weak that he could only walk in a crouching position.
We can see them waiting there, crouching ready for another difficulty that may come along.
