verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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Should your management bet the company on a high-risk business strategy? Hunker down and attempt to weather the storm?
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He liked to hunker down and talk.
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This year, Hollywood mostly prostrated itself, hunkering down until the wind from the right blows over.
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The view is worth every tortured moment of discomfort it takes to hunker down , scrunch up, and peer out.
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School had trained them to hunker down , to disengage.
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A third student has plopped his books by the door and is hunkering down against the wall.
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The 20-minute ride to the dinner table is chilly; you hunker down , gripping a thick blanket and your companion.
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People are hunkering down in camps.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A third student has plopped his books by the door and is hunkering down against the wall.
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He liked to hunker down and talk.
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People are hunkering down in camps.
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School had trained them to hunker down, to disengage.
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The 20-minute ride to the dinner table is chilly; you hunker down, gripping a thick blanket and your companion.
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The view is worth every tortured moment of discomfort it takes to hunker down, scrunch up, and peer out.
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This year, Hollywood mostly prostrated itself, hunkering down until the wind from the right blows over.