All quat synonyms

verb quat

• bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
• cower — If you cower, you bend forward and downwards because you are very frightened.
• grovel — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
• huddle — to gather or crowd together in a close mass.
• hunch — to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
• kneel — to go down or rest on the knees or a knee.
• squat — to sit in a low or crouching position with the legs drawn up closely beneath or in front of the body; sit on one's haunches or heels.
• stoop — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
• wince — to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; start; flinch.
• bow — When you bow to someone, you briefly bend your body towards them as a formal way of greeting them or showing respect.
• dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
• duck — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
• quail — a small, migratory, gallinaceous game bird, Coturnix coturnix, of the Old World.
• hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
• crouch — If you are crouching, your legs are bent under you so that you are close to the ground and leaning forward slightly.