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hunker down definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down]
2: take shelter; "During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut"
3: hold stubbornly to a position; "The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down"

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see hunker