hunched
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4.1
- adjective
- /hʌnʧt/
:
encorvado
- After years of poor posture, she realized she had become hunched over while sitting at her desk.
- hunched figure
- hunched man
- hunched shoulders
But the next morning, why was it that you always came out hunched?
- But the next morning, why was it that you always came out hunched?
- Thankfully, the cameras will have left for the for that aspect of the story, a man hunched in shame.
- Old folks perpetually dozing, hunched, contorted in their wheelchairs, face as pale as frozen pie crusts.
- And he was kind of tall, a little bit hunched over.
- I took it and it was four months of nights, weekends, no life, a lost Christmas and New Year's Eve spent hunched over the computer.
- And eight years ago, a bunch of my friends were just hunched over a laptop on Reddit, vaping on their phones, just going, you know what?
- You start to rotate forward a little bit and you start to use your neck, which tells me that you're a little forward rotated in the shoulders and a little hunched forward.
- Just got to do this hunched over my spinal column.
- And they're going to be like hunched over, like, you know, like, like this is.
Examples
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I do, and I realize how hunched over I have become.
Fiction book (1996) -
A shout had risen up across the slab as a workman spotted my hunched figure clinging to the wall.
Fiction book (1992) -
And he was kind of tall, a little bit hunched over.
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And in Med school, sitting a lot, studying, hunched over, not good.
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The hunched old man did not want to disappoint the boy further.
Fiction book (1996) -
A hunched figure is running atop the boxcars.
Fiction book (1996) -
Inside, a hunched woman with yellowish skin fed sticks to a pot-bellied stove.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the warm corner behind the stove sat Mother Keer, hunched and frail, in her wide-armed chair.
Fiction book (1994) -
He ate slowly, watching the sluggish procession of cars and the hunched, gingerly trudge of people past his window.
Fiction book (1996) -
Beck, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, has short-cropped white hair, sharp blue eyes, and, at 88, a hunched and shuffling gait.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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7.7
A person with a curved back so the shoulders bend forward
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4.8
Having shoulders and upper back bent forward instead of standing straight
Having a rounded back and shoulders, not straight
A person with a curved back and shoulders that lean forward when standing or walking
A person with a bent back and shoulders who does not stand straight
Curved so they bend outward, like some legs
Antonyms
How Stooped
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hunched comes from the word hunch, which once meant a 'hump' or 'lump' and appears in hunchback, so to be hunched is to have your back bent into a small hump.