A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
A hump; a protuberance.
A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
A premise placed after its conclusion.
A motive for an action or a determination.
Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
To support with reasons, as a request.
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
To persuade by reasoning or argument.
To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational
To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.