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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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    Also "stooped", "crouched"
    – user3169
    Mar 24, 2016 at 23:02
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    to tiptoe is the verb to describe "to pass somewhere stealthily/ silently and thus try not to be seen".
    – Olha Horak
    Mar 25, 2016 at 11:26

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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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  • Thanks a lot, @Gandalf. Can I say :" My grandpa entered the room hunched over."?
    – Soudabeh
    Mar 25, 2016 at 4:54
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    @Soudabeh absolutely. Works for me. Just be careful with the word hunch as it has another common definition, that of "intuition", but it is a noun.
    – Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_
    Mar 25, 2016 at 19:59

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