hunker down English

Meaning hunker down meaning

What does hunker down mean?

hunker down

— verb (= squat, hunker) sit on one's heels In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm

— verb take shelter During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut

— verb hold stubbornly to a position The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down

Synonyms hunker down synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as hunker down?

hunker down English » English

squat

scrunch up

scrunch

hunker

crouch

squat down

sit on one’s heels

hedge

crouch down

Topics hunker down topics

What do people use hunker down to talk about?

Social behavior Conflict

War

• What words refer to strategy in war?
  strategy tactics hunker down keep up the pressure overwhelm concentrate your forces form a line hold the line break the line reform rally morale maintain morale military discipline supply supply lines control the battle battlefield control reconnaissance reconnoiter intelligence propaganda

Physical actions Posture

Bend down

• What words refer to bending down?
  bend bend down bend over bob bow cower crouch double up duck get down hunch hunker down lean over scrunch stoop

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Simple sentences

The bus broke down at one end of the bridge.

And then he sat down himself.

Let's get down to business.

Let's sit down in the shade of that tree.

Please write down your name.

I will write down your name and address.

They decided to shut down the factory.

We must cut down our expenses.

We can cut down on our use of energy.

I fell down the stairs in my haste.

Hot tears ran down her cheeks.

A drunk man fell down the stairs.

Because of heavy rain my car broke down.

I was walking down the street when suddenly someone tapped me on the shoulder.

The wind calmed down.

I won't stoop down to his level.

Put your hands down!

You shouldn't look down on him.

You can rely on him. He never lets you down.

Let me put down your new phone number in my notebook.

When bears sleep or lie down, their postures depend on whether they want to get rid of heat or conserve it.

The rich are apt to look down on people.

As he crossed the bridge, he looked down at the stream.

The reporter took down everything that was said.

Try and calm down.

Don't set your failure down to bad luck.

You must cut down on extra expenses in order to live within your means.

It is no wonder that you are turning down the proposal.

The rich are apt to look down upon the poor.

Movie subtitles

If you like it, it's good no matter. If you don't like it, I break down.

Framework will be OK, calm down, relax. Calm down!

But, I'm not backing down!

Stand down!

I have boiled it down to six things and I'm going to call them the six killer applications - the killer apps - that made the West dominate the rest.

Down below were stowed a host of exotic animals.

And when they broke down, the Chinese couldn't even mend them.

Come on down here, huh?

Just calm down, calm down!

Put that stupid thing down!

Did he just break down and cry?

Down, down thy soul is cast!

Cut down the trees!

Your fever will go down.

Perhaps, but it's your generals who lay down the law.

Almighty Allah will send a new prophet who'll come down the mountain and throw the infidels and traitors into the sea!

You let me down.

Calm down! He won't have the chance anyway.

Next week, we'll be laying down the last railroad track. We're also inaugurating the new Blida station.

Please, sit down.

Down with the Emperor!

These people are hotheads a bit quick-tempered, but they cool down as quickly.

It cooled down after a month.

Wait. Settle down. There's more.

I didn't want to believe her, but deep down I knew she was telling the truth.

We're all really busted up about how things went down with Johnny. I know he's a friend of yours, but he's a friend of ours too.

Today, a very stinky rain will come down on the heads of Frankie and his crew.

So we cut their water supply down to a trickle.

I come from up there, and now I'm down here.

And four are having lots of fun, sliding down the stairs.

Hey! Slow down, slow down.

This kind of thing brings down governments.

Gerard thought that he had a plan, and he thought that he was going to take everybody down, he thought that he was the man.

But I didn't steal the food, and I didn't burn down the shed.

People weren't taking too kindly me being at camp 'cause apparently I stole food from the shed and then burned it down.

So she just fell down and ended up that way?

I didn't want to burn it down.

News and current affairs

After the subprime crisis erupted, mortgage and consumer debt was paid down by households either with their savings or by default.

He could hardly have been held responsible for the hubris which led to the avalanche of 1973, yet it nonetheless brought him down as well.

After cutting down a swath of rainforest, soils are often quickly leached of their nutrients so that they cannot sustain crops or nutritious grasses for livestock.

On the other hand, financial incentives would probably succeed, because cutting down forest to create pastureland is not profitable enough to induce farmers to forego payments for protecting the land.

But, even as Europe's leaders promised that help was on the way, they doubled down on the belief that non-crisis countries must cut spending.

One cannot help but wonder how thoughtlessly Europe's politicians have started down this slippery slope.

They chose to defer to the civilian leadership and to parliament, which, in voting down the US plan, reflected overwhelming public sentiment against the war.

After the ensuing financial thunderstorm died down, the sun would come out again very quickly.

At the same time, the Commission's latest report on Turkey's progress toward accession notes that political reforms have slowed down, further calling into question the country's future EU membership.

Farmers were digging a pit in the riverbed, down to the water table approximately two meters below ground level.

Unemployment, and fear that it will spread, drives down wages, incomes, and consumption - and thus total demand.

KIEV: Chernobyl, the world's most notorious nuclear power plant, will be shut down today, fourteen years after it spewed clouds of radioactive dust into the atmosphere.

Now that Chernobyl will be permanently shut down, world attention again turns to Ukraine, this time in hope, not fear.

Shutting down a vital source of electrical energy, which Chernobyl remains, is no an easy task, particularly with winter upon us.

MILAN - Although the financial crisis is winding down, the prospects for growth in the global economy are unlikely to pick up.

In the medium term, once growth revives, debt can be paid down and the financial sector curbed so that it does not inflict another crisis on the world.

Once high-flying small economies like Ireland, Hungary, and Iceland break down.

If real estate prices were to fall dramatically, a chain reaction could occur, taking down big and small investors alike, and over time causing wide suffering to ordinary Africans.

Any effort by Palestinian security authorities to put down these groups by force would lead to far more violence.

We are convinced that the concepts that Liu and his colleagues put down on paper in December 2008 are both universal and timeless.