All hunkered synonyms

verb hunkered

• squatted — to sit in a low or crouching position with the legs drawn up closely beneath or in front of the body; sit on one's haunches or heels.
• crouched — to stoop or bend low.
• crawled — Simple past tense and past participle of crawl.
• cowered — to crouch, as in fear or shame.
• stooped — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
• knelt — a simple past tense and past participle of kneel.
• bent — Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
• bowed — Something that is bowed is curved.
• dipped — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
• ducked — to stoop or bend suddenly; bob.
• groveled — (US) Simple past form of grovel.
• huddled — to gather or crowd together in a close mass.
• hunched — to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
• quailed — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
• winced — to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; start; flinch.