hunched
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4.1
- adjective
- /hʌnʧt/
- After years of poor posture, she realized she had become hunched over while sitting at her desk.
- hunched figure
- hunched man
- hunched shoulders
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Watch on YouTubeBut 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
9
4.7
A person with a curved back and shoulders that lean forward when standing or walking
7
5.3
Curved so they bend outward, like some legs
2
7.7
A person with a curved back so the shoulders bend forward
1
4.8
Having shoulders and upper back bent forward instead of standing straight
1
4.8
A person with a bent back and shoulders who does not stand straight
1
5.9
Having a rounded back and shoulders, not straight
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.