crouching

noun, adj — 2 senses

noun

/ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/

The action of the verb crouch.

[…] so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a warmer, brighter region of mutual liking and approval, until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear.1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down:

adj

That crouches or crouch.

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