Illustration: Caught by a sudden hail shower beside a neighborhood sports ground, a groundskeeper crouches tightly beneath a low concrete stair landing. Both feet stay on the ground, knees drawn close to the chest, back rounded and head tucked between raised shoulders.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

うずくまる

uzukumaru

to crouch, to cower

Example sentences

彼かれはうずくまって泣なき続つづけた。
He crouched and went on crying.
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彼かれは私わたしに見みえないように席せきにうずくまった。
He scrunched down in his seat so that I wouldn’t see him.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
ある農夫のうふが夜よる、道みちにうずくまっている牛うしを見みつけ、自分じぶんの家いえへ連つれ帰かえって牛小屋うしこやへ入いれた。
A farmer found a cow crouching on a road, brought it to his own house, and put it into the cowshed.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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