Adjective hunkered has 1 sense
- crouched, crouching, huddled, hunkered, hunkered down - squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down"
Antonyms: erect, vertical, upright (indirect, via unerect)
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Verb hunker has 1 sense
- squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down - sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
--1 is one way to sit, sit down
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