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# crouch

«crouch» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to bend your knees and lower your body close to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (crouch, crouches, crouched, crouching); noun (a crouch)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To crouch means to bend your knees and lower your body close to the ground, leaning forward a little. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/#m1)

2) A crouch is that low, bent position. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To bend low in defeat. Isaiah says the proud will only crouch among the captives. Interpretation: Read as the humiliation of those who rely on their own power instead of God. In the primary lessons: In PE and sport: sprinters crouch at the start of a race; goalkeepers crouch ready to dive. In safety drills: in an earthquake, «drop, cover and hold on» (crouch under a sturdy table); in a fire, crouch low because smoke rises; during lightning with no shelter, crouch low and away from tall things. In nature, cats crouch before they pounce. Phrases: crouch down, crouch behind, in a crouch.

### examples

- They can do nought except crouch under the captives, and fall under the slain. (Prophets ISA.10.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/#x1)
- The cat crouched low, ready to pounce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/#x2)
- Crouch down under your desk during the earthquake drill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/#x3)
- We crouched behind the bush during hide-and-seek. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/#x4)
- Sprinters crouch at the starting line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/#x5)
- Stay low and crouch if there is smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/#x6)
- I crouched to tie my shoelace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/#x7)
- The young man crouched low to the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: crouched, crouching. Similar: squat (sitting on your heels), kneel (resting on your knees), duck (lower your head quickly).

### In the corpora

- [They can do nought except crouch under the captives, and fall under the slain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.216/)
- [He croucheth, he boweth down, and the helpless fall into his mighty claws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.127/)
- [Crouch low, and roll when you fall instead of slamming down a stiff arm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crouch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crouch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.