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to hunch
01
to bend the upper side of the body forward and make a rounded back
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
hunch
3rd person singular
hunches
Present participle
hunching
Past simple
hunched
Past participle
hunched
Examples
As the storm approached, people hunched against the wind and rain, trying to shield themselves.
Hunch
01
a feeling or intuition about something, often without conscious reasoning or evidence
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
hunches
Examples
I had a hunch that it was going to rain, so I brought an umbrella just in case.
02
the act of bending yourself into a humped position
Lexical Tree
hunched
hunch
