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Meanings of humped in inglês
Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column.
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Examples for "hunchbacked"
Examples for "hunchbacked"
1
Now another character entered-this a hunchbacked sibling of Pulcinella's-and summarily beheaded Donkey-Dick.
2
Another of the hunchbacked creatures dropped from above and slammed into him.
3
Nothing had remained real but Stornham and Nigel and the little hunchbacked baby.
4
It gave the cabin an odd unfinished look, a hunchbacked look.
5
Her hunchbacked sister stood by the hearth, staring toward the threshold.
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She crossed the river, stopping for a moment on the humpbacked bridge.
2
But we have been betrayed by a pot-bellied, humpbacked, and crabbed dwarf.
3
Distorted, humpbacked and barrel-chested, it scuttled on reed-thin legs to Goat's side.
4
Why... they're little men... with long hair and funny clothes... and humpbacked.
5
It was she who rescued me, General, she and the little humpbacked man.
1
Above, a hazy gibbous moon tried to break free of the clouds.
2
He leant out of his window, and looked at the gibbous moon.
3
It was a crisp evening, the gibbous moon illuminating a busy street.
4
The moon overhead was gibbous, and there were no clouds in the sky.
5
One or two revealed gibbous, then crescent forms before they faded behind me.
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I know he dislikes those with deformities, for all his fool Will Somers is a crookback.
2
The words 'crookback lawyer's clerk' still rankled.
3
The interior of the square was a maze of stalls and crookback aisles, shaded by awnings of woven grass.
4
You, the crookback lawyer!'
5
All that way the plains are as full of crookback oxen (buffaloes) as the mountain Serena in Spain is of sheep.
1
One case showed a 15 degrees kyphotic angle in the proximal adjacent segment.
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The kyphotic angles were measured using the Cobb technique.
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However, kyphotic women had no greater back pain, disability caused by back problems, or poorer health.
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Conclusion: We describe a rare adjacent segment kyphotic condition in a young man with SMA Type II.
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The kyphotic angulation was restored from 10.14 degrees to 2.32 degrees.
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But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice.
Usage of humped in inglês
1
A humped grey shape emerged, wide arms brushing aside thickets of saplings.
2
I groped my way across the kitchen and humped into the table.
3
The camel suddenly humped his back, and the gasps turned to shrieks.
4
Behind three humped rocks, a scarlet sorceress ambled on the valley floor.
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That and five horses humped tail to the driving wind, stolidly enduring.
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The humped backs of boarding clamjets loomed over the parking lot hedge.
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The spine bowed, humped up, and the flesh split along the backbone.
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He speeded up the tempo, enjoying how frantically she humped his hand.
9
Jim Hart had been sitting on a fallen tree, all humped together.
10
The ferry docked and we humped our bags into the little town.
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Only a subtly humped nose kept the woman from being a stunner.
12
The humped-up form already in that canoe he knew was the Broken Man.
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With humped back and nose to the ground, it leaps into the air.
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The sheriff was humped over the telephone waiting for his connection.
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He put his arm round the humped shoulders with the words.
16
They seem to be of the humped variety, but with the hump evanescent.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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