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单词 squat
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squat

verb
/skwɒt/
/skwɑːt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they squat
/skwɒt/
/skwɑːt/
he / she / it squats
/skwɒts/
/skwɑːts/
past simple squatted
/ˈskwɒtɪd/
/ˈskwɑːtɪd/
past participle squatted
/ˈskwɒtɪd/
/ˈskwɑːtɪd/
-ing form squatting
/ˈskwɒtɪŋ/
/ˈskwɑːtɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive] squat (down) to sit on your heels with your knees bent up close to your body
    • Children were squatting on the floor.
    • When we saw them we squatted down behind a wall.
  2. [intransitive, transitive] squat (something) to live in a building or on land which is not yours, without the owner’s permission
    • They ended up squatting in the empty houses on Oxford Road.
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    • accommodation
    • deed
    • home
    • house
    • lease
    • let
    • location
    • mortgage
    • squat
    • tenant
    3. Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘thrust down with force’): from Old French esquatir ‘flatten’, based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere ‘compel’, from co- ‘together’ + agere ‘drive’ The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th cent.

squat

noun
/skwɒt/
/skwɑːt/
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  1. (especially British English) a building that people are living in without permission and without paying rent
    • to live in a squat
    Topics Houses and homesc2
  2. a squatting position of the body
  3. (also squat thrust)
     an exercise in which you start with your hands on the floor and your knees bent, and then quickly move both legs backwards and forwards together
    4. Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘thrust down with force’): from Old French esquatir ‘flatten’, based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere ‘compel’, from co- ‘together’ + agere ‘drive’ The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th cent.

squat

adjective
/skwɒt/
/skwɑːt/
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  1. short and wide or fat, in a way that is not attractive
    • a squat tower
    • a squat muscular man with a shaven head
    • The man had a broad face and a squat neck.
    Topics Appearancec2
    Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘thrust down with force’): from Old French esquatir ‘flatten’, based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere ‘compel’, from co- ‘together’ + agere ‘drive’ The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th cent.
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