verb
- Sit on one's heels.
- usage: "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
- synonyms: squat, crouch, scrunch, hunker, hunker down
- Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in.
- usage: "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"
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