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squash

1[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.

Origin:
1555–65; < MF esquasser < VL *exquassāre. See ex- 1 , quash


squasher, noun


2, 3. quell, crush, repress.
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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
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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