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0️⃣ Nothing at all 🏋️ A knee bend 🏋️ To bend knees 🏚️ To live illegally 🏠 To sit low 📦 Short and thick
to squat

to squat

7 4.2
To sit low to the ground as a building or object
  • verb
  • /skwɑt/
translation icon : agazaparse
  • "Here, let's pray, sweetie," she said, squatting behind the baby and holding his tiny fists together.
  • squat at the edge

So you tighten the springs up so it doesn't squat when you put this shit in.

Examples

  • Just outside this circle, we see the first Indian we saw, squatting on his haunches, watching.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Then we were marched into a smaller building where we had to squat while soldiers sheared our heads.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Squat in a tent on the beach?

    Gangster Story (1959)

  • I'm gonna squat down in frame, say my little thing and then exit into the jungle.

    Uncharted (2009)

  • So we're going to squat down and flap your wings.

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

  • So y'all sit down, squat down, or lie down... but make yourselves at home.

    Walk the Line (2005)

  • It gets a bit lonely squatting on a bench all day.

    Notorious (1946)

  • Pap sat away across the pasture on the edge of the place, squatting under a hickory tree.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Jonathan flew ahead of them, running at sandpipers, shouting at gulls, squatting to examine a shell.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • She decided to squat in the garden to get a better view of the flowers.

Synonyms

to hunker
vsto squat
39 7.5

To bend your knees and lower your body close to the ground

is used for objects or structures that sit low with a broad appearance
to scrunch
vsto squat
  • Informal
8 6.0

Bend your knees and sit on your heels

describes objects that sit low and appear broad rather than compact
to haunch
vsto squat
1 8.5

To crouch with knees bent and body close to the ground ready to move

is used for objects that sit low and have a broad, resting shape

Antonyms

tall
∞ 1.0

Higher than most people or things of the same kind

elevated
1 3.9

Raised above the surrounding ground or area

How Low

to squat
7 4.2
to crouch
65 1.8
to sit
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

squat infinitive
squatted past
squatted past participle
squatting present participle
squats third person singular

Etymology

Squat in the sense of an object 'sitting close to the ground' comes from the same old idea of 'crouching' or 'pressing down', so if a building squats by the river it simply sits low and wide near the ground.