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CROUCH

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crouch verb A. intranzitiv

1. a se târî, a se umili, a slugărnici, a slugări, a face sluj.

2. a se ghemui la pământ (de frică), a se ciuci, a se chirci.

3. (despre animale) a se pune la pândă.

crouch verb B. tranzitiv

a îndoi, a încovoia, a-şi pleca (spinarea).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He put his hand upon her head, and she only crouched closer.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

A man was crouching at the window.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Near the window his wife was crouching, her head leaning against the wall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes sprang up from where he crouched by the window.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The creature that owned it had been crouching behind the parasite, and had looked round it at the same instant that I did.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Little they recked of the brushwood men who crouched in their rags along the fringe of the forest and looked with wild and haggard eyes at the rich, warm glow which shot a golden bar of light from the high arched windows of the castle.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a stiff pull, but their weariness fell from them as they crouched low to the snow, whining with eagerness and gladness as they struggled upward to the last ounce of effort in their bodies.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

I crouched and listened.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He crouched and bristled a little at the thought of it.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Crouching together in the angle of the door, we kept our eyes fixed upon the mirror.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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