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Hunching vs Crouching - What's the difference?

hunching | crouching |

As verbs the difference between hunching and crouching

is that hunching is while crouching is .

As nouns the difference between hunching and crouching

is that hunching is the motion by which something is hunched while crouching is the action of the verb crouch .

As an adjective crouching is

that crouches or crouch.

hunching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion by which something is hunched.
  • * 1864 , George Augustus Sala, John Camden Hotten, Robson: A Sketch

    • crouching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb crouch .
  • * 1972 , Richard Adams, (Watership Down)
    • 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.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • That crouches or crouch.
    • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon