hunker


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Synonyms for hunker

to stoop low with the limbs pulled in close to the body

to sit on one's heels

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Synonyms for hunker

sit on one's heels

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The son of Frederick and Dorothy Shire Hunker, he was born 14 November 1924 in Wilkinsburg, PA.
Part of the problem, researchers said, is that parents in poor neighborhoods tend to "hunker down" at home, not venturing out much out of fear.
You've got to hunker down like a jackass in a hailstorm."
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At the same nine, it is being made clear to them that they should hunker down and watch the fight from the side and then quietly decide whether to walk or to stay.
But rather than just hunker down in defence of our lives and life-styles could we not take every opportunity for honest dialogue with those who see things differently from us?
Rather than hunker down and focus on the floor, Chamecki holds her upper body erect and gives herself to the audience.
Meanwhile, those who hunker crown to survive until the next boom in the economy and then allow their customers to buy a "commodity" will be the next foundries to close.
Richard Ossoff said, "While we won't cancel any campaigns, we will adjust timing, change intervals of mailings" ("Publishers hunker down for war," p.
Rather than hunker down and wait for trouble, this system got ahead of the problem by sending letters offering free testing to all who had had the procedure to ensure they had not been adversely affected.