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# hunched

«hunched» in Mova's school dictionary: **Bent forward with the back curved and shoulders raised** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (hunched); verb (hunch, hunches, hunched, hunching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bent forward with the back curved and shoulders raised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunched/#m1)

2) (verb) To bend your back and shoulders forward, often from cold, tiredness or worry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunched/#m2)

3) «hunched over» something — leaning over it closely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunched/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it paints a picture: a hunched old man, a child hunched over a book, someone hunched against the wind. In health lessons pupils learn that sitting hunched over a screen is bad for the back. Phrases: hunched over, hunched up, hunched shoulders.

### examples

- She sat hunched over her homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunched/#x1)
- The old man walked slowly, hunched against the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunched/#x2)
- Don't sit hunched over your tablet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunched/#x3)
- He hunched his shoulders in the cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunched/#x4)
- The cat sat hunched on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunched/#x5)
- They were hunched together under one umbrella. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunched/#x6)
- She sat hunched up against the wail, and as she looked like a bundle of rags they did not notice her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunched/#x7)

### note

Past of hunch. «A hunch» is also a different noun: a feeling or guess without proof («I had a hunch he'd win»). Opposite of hunched: upright, straight.

### In the corpora

- [Sitting hunched with your head bent forward over a screen strains the neck and back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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