hunched

past tense of hunch
as in crouched
to lie low with the limbs close to the body he hunched next to a bush to avoid being seen

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Recent Examples of hunched Tendons, ligaments and muscles naturally shorten with time, which results in stiff joints and people being hunched over and shuffling around. Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025 On a large scale LED screen, a white cheeked spider monkey sits hunched over a smart phone within a smouldering virtual Brazilian forest landscape, occasionally glancing up at his viewers. Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 The sight of him, hunched over and sickly, gives Meiyun the chills. Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunched
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  • The crowd crouched – then sprinted away from the canopy.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • And over the past nine months, a team of judges has been measuring it, pinpointing the exact location of the wave’s base, then stacking images of Slebir’s crouched pose on top of each other like a totem pole up the face of the wave.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • Inside, hundreds of people huddled together, crying.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • On fourth down a flag was thrown for what looked like pass interference on the Mustangs, but after the officials huddled, the penalty was waved off giving the ball back to the Bulldogs.
    Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Hunched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunched. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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