Antonyms for hunker
ˈhʌŋ kərhun·ker

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1. squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker downverb

   sit on one's heels

   "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"

   Synonyms:
   crump, scrunch up, crisp, bow, crease, stoop, crinkle, hunker down, bend, scrunch, thud, ruckle, squat, crouch, wrinkle

How to use hunker in a sentence?

1. Brendan Peregrine:

   We can hunker down for days.

2. Ryan Gieselman:

   We're lucky enough to live in the center of Dauphin Island, so it's not hopefully gon na be too bad for us, i hope it really just misses us and we can go on with the rest of our summer and enjoy it, but if it hits us, just be prepared and be ready to hunker down.

3. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser:

   It has life-and-death implications, and (people) should treat it that way, people should hunker down, shelter in place and stay off the roads.

4. Orlando Calas Jr.:

   The southern and northern extremes of the trail are the areas where The Laundrie family attorney really can just hunker down and get lost out there.

5. Patrick Reed:

   They had two couches by a table, and we stayed there the entire time, whenever they say, 'OK, we'll update you in an hour,' it's just not enough time for us to be able to go all the way back to where we're staying and back, so we just had to hunker down here.

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