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[skwosh, skwawsh] 
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel. |
| 2. | to suppress or put down; quash. |
| 3. | to silence or disconcert (someone), as with a crushing retort or emotional or psychological pressure. |
| 4. | to press forcibly against or cram into a small space; squeeze. |
–verb (used without object)
| 5. | to be pressed into a flat mass or pulp. |
| 6. | (of a soft, heavy body) to fall heavily. |
| 7. | to make a splashing sound; splash. |
| 8. | to be capable of being or likely to be squashed: Tomatoes squash easily. |
| 9. | to squeeze or crowd; crush. |
–noun
| 10. | the act or sound of squashing. |
| 11. | the fact of squashing or of being squashed. |
| 12. | something squashed or crushed. |
| 13. | something soft and easily crushed. |
| 14. | Also called squash racquets. a game for two or four persons, similar to racquets but played on a smaller court and with a racket having a round head and a long handle. |
| 15. | Also called squash tennis. a game for two persons, resembling squash racquets except that the ball is larger and livelier and the racket is shaped like a tennis racket. |
| 16. | British. a beverage made from fruit juice and soda water: lemon squash. |
squash
2 [skwosh, skwawsh] –noun, plural squash⋅es, (especially collectively
) squash.
) squash. | 1. | the fruit of any of various vinelike, tendril-bearing plants belonging to the genus Curcurbita, of the gourd family, as C. moschata or C. pepo, used as a vegetable. |
| 2. | any of these plants. |
Origin:
1635–45, Americanism; < Narragansett (E sp.) askútasquash (pl.)
1635–45, Americanism; < Narragansett (E sp.) askútasquash (pl.)
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| squash 1 (skwŏsh, skwôsh) n.
[From alteration of Narragansett askútasquash.] |
| squash 2 (skwŏsh, skwôsh) v. squashed, squash·ing, squash·es v. tr.
[Middle English squachen, from Old French esquasser, from Vulgar Latin *exquassāre : Latin ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + Latin quassāre, to shatter, frequentative of quatere, to shake; see kwēt- in Indo-European roots.] squash'er n. |
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Squash
Squash\, n. A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.Squash
Squash\, n. [Cf. Musquash.] (Zo["o]l.) An American animal allied to the weasel. [Obs.] --Goldsmith.Squash
Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw, green, immaturate, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple.] (Bot.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, C. moschata, and the great winter squash, C. maxima, but the distinctions are not clear. Squash beetle (Zo["o]l.), a small American beetle (Diabrotica, or Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species. Squash bug (Zo["o]l.), a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus, or Anasa, tristis) injurious to squash vines.Squash
Squash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Squashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Squashing.] [OE. squashen, OF. escachier, esquachier, to squash, to crush, F. ['e]cacher, perhaps from (assumed) LL. excoacticare, fr. L. ex + coactare to constrain, from cogere, coactum, to compel. Cf. Cogent, Squat, v. i.] To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.Squash
Squash\, n. 1. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. --Shak. 2. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt. "This squash, this gentleman." --Shak. 3. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. --Arbuthnot. My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift.
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Language Translation for : squash
Italian:
schiacciare, pigiare,
German:
(zer-)quetschen,
Japanese:
押しつぶす
squash (v.)
"to crush," 1565, from O.Fr. esquasser "to crush," from V.L. *exquassare, from L. ex- "out" + quassare "to shatter" (see quash "to crush"). The name of the racket game is first recorded in 1886, originally as the name of the soft rubber ball used in it.
squash (n.)
"gourd fruit," 1643, shortened borrowing from Algonquian (Narraganset) askutasquash, lit. "the green things that may be eaten raw," from askut "green, raw" + asquash "eaten," in which the -ash is a plural affix (cf. succotash).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: squash
Pronunciation: 'skwäsh, 'skwosh
Function: noun
: a bit of tissue crushed between slide and cover glass and stained in situ especiallyfor cytological study of chromosomes
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