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Crouching vs Squatting - What's the difference?

crouching | squatting |

As verbs the difference between crouching and squatting

is that crouching is present participle of lang=en while squatting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between crouching and squatting

is that crouching is the action of the verb crouch while squatting is the act or general practice of occupying a building or land illegally.

As an adjective crouching

is that crouches or crouch.

crouching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb crouch .
  • * 1972 , Richard Adams, (Watership Down)
    • so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a warmer, brighter region of mutual liking and approval, until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • That crouches or crouch.
    • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    squatting

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or general practice of occupying a building or land illegally.

    • Derived terms

    * squatter

    Verb

    (head)