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squash¹
- /skwɒʃ/ UK
- /skwɔʃ/ US
- /skwɑʃ/ cot caught merger
- /skwɔɹʃ/
Rhymes with -ɒʃ
Where it comes from
From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
noun squashes
- A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets. She plays squash every Saturday.
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A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here.
Similar: cordial, diluting juice, water juice
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move. It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
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A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
Similar: smear
- Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
- Something unripe or soft.
- A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
- An extremely one-sided, usually short, match. It was one of the most shocking WWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minute squash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent.
verb squashes · squashing · squashed
- To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
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To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
Similar: condense
- To suppress; to force into submission. A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.
Similar: press
interjection
- The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water. […] rain, too, had lately fallen, and had decidedly not evaporated, since, at every step, I went squash! squash! up to the tops of my boots, and many times very extent, stretching to the eastward, […]
squash²
- /skwɒʃ/ UK
- /skwɔʃ/ US
- /skwɑʃ/ cot caught merger
- /skwɔɹʃ/
Rhymes with -ɒʃ
Where it comes from
Shortening of Narragansett askutasquash (“[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)”), from askut (“green, raw”) + asquash (“eaten”).
noun squash · squashes
- Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish. We ate squash and green beans.
squash³
- /skwɒʃ/ UK
- /skwɔʃ/ US
- /skwɑʃ/ cot caught merger
- /skwɔɹʃ/
Rhymes with -ɒʃ
Where it comes from
Clipping of musquash.
noun squashes
- Muskrat. The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.
Squash⁴
proper noun
- A surname
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: crush, squeeze, squelch, mash, squash rackets, squash racquets, squash vine, racquetball, stomp, pummel, smash, crash, rackets, squish, quash, overwhelm
verb
Similar: press
Translations
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noun the sport
| Español | squash |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 스쿼시 seukwosi |
| 日本語 | スカッシュ sukasshu |
| 中文 | 壁球 bìqiú |
| Português | squash |
| Français | squash |
| Deutsch | Squash |
| Русский | сквош skvoš |
| Tiếng Việt | bóng quần |
verb to beat or press into pulp or flat mass
| Español | aplastamiento, aplastar |
|---|---|
| Português | esmagar |
| Русский | разда́вливать razdávlivatʹ, раздави́ть razdavítʹ, расплю́щивать raspljúščivatʹ, расплю́щить raspljúščitʹ, сжима́ть sžimátʹ, сжать sžatʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | nén, ép |
verb to compress
| Español | aplastamiento, aplastar |
|---|---|
| Português | comprimir |
| Français | presser |
| Deutsch | zusammendrücken |
| Italiano | schiacciare |
| Русский | сда́вливать sdávlivatʹ, сдави́ть sdavítʹ, сжима́ть sžimátʹ, сжать sžatʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | dồn, chen |
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title = {squash},
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