English-Thai Dictionary

crouch

N ท่า หมอบ  tar-mob

 

crouch

VI ก้มลง  bend bow kom-long

 

crouch

VI ก้ม ศีรษะ  kom-se-sa

 

crouch

VT ก้ม ศีรษะ  kom-se-sa

 

crouch

VT หมอบ (ใช้กับ สัตว์ ที่อยู่ ใน ท่า เตรียม วิ่ง หรือ กระโดด ไป ข้างหน้า  mob

 

crouch down

PHRV หมอบลง  mob-long

 

crouching

ADJ ที่อยู่ ใน ท่า หมอบ  crouched hunkered down ti-yu-nai-tar-mob

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CROUCH

v.i.[G., to creep, to stoop, to cringe. ] 1. To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground; as an animal. A dog crouches to his master; a lion crouches in the thicket.
2. To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of bread. 1 Samuel 2:36.

 

CROUCH

v.t.[See Cross. ] To sign with the cross; to bless. [Not in use. ]

 

CROUCHING

ppr. Bending; stooping; cringing.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CROUCH

Crouch (krouch; 129 ), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crouched (kroucht ); p. pr. & vb. n. Crouching. ] Etym: [OE. cruchen, crouchen, crouken; cf. E. creep, G. krauchen, kriechen, or E. crook to bend, also crouch to cross. ]

 

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.

 

CROUCH

Crouch, v. t. Etym: [OE. cruchen, crouchen, from cruche, crouche,cross. Cf. Crosier, Crook. ]

 

1. To sign with the cross; to bless. [Obs. ] Chaucer.

 

2. To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear. She folded her arms across her chest, And crouched her head upon her breast. Colerige.

 

CROUCHED

CROUCHED Crouched (kroucht ), a.

 

Defn: Marked with the sign of the cross. [Obs. ] Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

crouch

crouch |krouCH kraʊtʃ | ▶verb [ no obj. ] adopt a position where the knees are bent and the upper body is brought forward and down, sometimes to avoid detection or to defend oneself: we crouched down in the trench | (be crouched ) : Leo was crouched before the fire. • (crouch over ) bend over in this way so as to be close to (someone or something ): she was crouching over some flower bed. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a crouching stance or posture. ORIGIN late Middle English: perhaps from Old French crochir ‘be bent, ’ from croche (see crotch ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

crouch

crouch |kraʊtʃ | ▶verb [ no obj. ] adopt a position where the knees are bent and the upper body is brought forward and down, typically in order to avoid detection or to defend oneself: we crouched down in the trench | (be crouched ) : Leo was crouched before the fire. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a crouching stance or posture. ORIGIN late Middle English: perhaps from Old French crochir ‘be bent ’, from croche (see crotch ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

crouch

crouch verb the umpire crouches just enough to get a good view of the strike zone: squat, bend (down ), hunker down, scrunch down, hunch over, stoop, kneel (down ); duck, cower.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

crouch

crouch verb Ian crouched down and peered under the wagon | we all crouched behind the wall: squat (down ), duck (down ), hunker down, bob down, hunch over; bend (down ), stoop (down ), bow (down ), kneel (down ), cower, cringe, shrink, huddle; N. Amer. informal scooch.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

crouch

crouch /kraʊtʃ /動詞 ～es /-ɪz /; ～ed /-t /; ～ing 自動詞 1 〈人が 〉しゃがむ , かがむ ; 〈動物が 〉身をかがめる (down ) (!飛びかかろうとする姿勢 ) ▸ crouch (down ) on the floor 床にしゃがみこむ 2 (おびえて )ひるむ ; うずくまる .3 ぺこぺこする .他動詞 …をしゃがませる, かがませる , …の身を低くさせる ; 〈ひざなど 〉を (おびえて )かがめる , 曲げる ; 〖be ～ed 〗しゃがんでいる (down ).名詞 C 〖通例a ～〗しゃがむ [かがむ ]こと ; 身を低くすること ; かがんだ姿勢 ▸ I hugged my knees in a crouch .しゃがんでひざを抱えた .