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hunch over

hunch over verb: to slouch, stoop, curl, or lean.

Verb

hunch over (third-person singular simple present hunches over, present participle hunching over, simple past and past participle hunched over)

  1. (informal) To slouch, stoop, curl, or lean.
  2. (idiomatic, informal, uncommon) To bend or stoop to issues that may not warrant such attention.

Forms of hunch over

third-person singular presenthunches over
present participlehunching over
past participlehunched over
pasthunched over

Questions about hunch over

What does hunch over mean?
Hunch over means to slouch, stoop, curl, or lean.
What part of speech is hunch over?
Hunch over is a verb.
What is the past tense of hunch over?
The past tense of hunch over is hunched over.

Words near hunch over in the dictionary

  1. Hunanese
  2. hunbot
  3. hunbots
  4. hunch
  5. hunch cuddy hunch
  6. hunch over
  7. Hunchakist
  8. Hunchakists
  9. hunchback
  10. hunchbacked
  11. hunchbacks

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