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Hunched

/hʌntʃt/

To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.

📖 Definitions of "Hunched"

verb
  1. 1

    To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.

    "Don't hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems."

  2. 2

    To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).

    "He hunched up his shoulders and stared down at the ground."

  3. 3

    To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.

  4. 4

    To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.

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