squat
/skɒwt $ skwɑːt/ verb [intransitive]
- to sit with you knees bent under you and your bottom just off the ground, balancing on
your feet
- squat down
- He squatted down beside the little girl.
- To live in a building or on a piece of land without permission and without paying rent
thesaurus
- sit to be resting your weight on your bottom somewhere, or to move into this position
- He was sitting in front of the fire
- She sat on the bed and kicked off her shoes
- Who is the man sitting next Karen?
- sit down to sit on a chair, bed, floor etc after you have been standing
- I sat down on the sofa
- Come in and sit own
- be seated formal to be sitting in a particular chair or place
- John was seated on my left
- There
coed
co·ed1 /ˌkəʊˈed◂ $ ˈkoʊed/ adjective
- using a system in which students of both sexes are educated together
- a coed college
- American English a coed place, team etc is used by or includes people of both sexes
- SYN mixed British English
dreary
drear·y /ˈdrɪəri $ ˈdrɪri/ (also drear /drɪə $ drɪr/ literary) adjective
dull and making you feel sad or bored:
- the same dreary routine
- a dreary winter’s day
- dreariness noun [uncountable]
escort
e·scort1 /ɪˈskɔːt $ -ɔːrt/ verb [transitive]
- to take someone somewhere, especially when you are protecting or guarding them
- The shipment was escorted by guards
- escort somebody back/through/to etc (something)
- Two Marines escorted Benny inside
- I escorted her to the door
- to go with someone and show them a place
- escort somebody around (something)
- The company escorts prospective buyers around the property.
spew
spew /spjuː/ verb
- [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] (also spew out/forth) to
flow out of something quickly in large quantities, or to make something flow out in
this way:
- Factory chimneys spewed fumes out into the sky
- spew from/into/over etc
- Brown water spewed from the tap
- [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] (also spew out/forth) to say a
lot bad or negative things very quicly:
- Groups like these use the Internet to spew racial hatred
References
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English