Learn English – How to describe this way of walking while bent forward

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How do you describe this way of walking:

Walking while bending forwards:

  • because you are in severe pain.
  • because you want to pass somewhere stealthily/ silently and thus
    try not to be seen.
  • because your old or weak, so you cannot walk uptight.

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Best Answer

Hunched (over)

(of a person) leaning forwards with their shoulders raised and their head down, or (of shoulders, etc) in the posture adopted by a hunched person

. "Genevieve hunched her shoulders against the storm of sound and fury and struggled to imagine a worse sort of hell."

Author: Ari Marmell

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road.

Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose,

silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

  • Federico Garcia Lorca
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