crouched

• IPA^(key): /kɹaʊt͡ʃt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kɹʌʊt͡ʃt/
• Rhymes: -aʊtʃt, -ʌʊtʃt

crouched (not comparable)

1. Marked with, bearing, or wearing the sign of the cross.

   Synonym: crutched

2. In a crouching position.
   • 1854, John Mills (Novelist.), The Old English Gentleman; Or, The Fields and the Woods, page 198:

     Like a crouched tiger, he waited for the moment to spring, and hunt his victim down.

crouched

1. simple past and past participle of crouch

• “crouched”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “crouched”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.