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hunkered

hunkered is the simple past and past participle of hunker.

Meaning of hunker

Verb

hunker (third-person singular simple present hunkers, present participle hunkering, simple past and past participle hunkered)

  1. (intransitive) To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down.
    • Get out of the mobile home and hunker in a ditch2020 March 3, “Tornado Safety”, in WHAS-TV, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2023
    Synonyms:
    crouch, squat, lie
  2. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task.

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Phrases with hunkered

Questions about hunkered

What is hunkered the simple past and past participle of?
Hunkered is the simple past and past participle of hunker.

Words near hunkered in the dictionary

  1. hunk
  2. hunk of junk
  3. hunkdom
  4. hunker
  5. hunker down
  6. hunkered
  7. hunkered down
  8. hunkerer
  9. hunkerers
  10. hunkering
  11. hunkering down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hunkered (page history and authors); hunker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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