[skwosh, skwawsh] 
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
[skwosh, skwawsh] 
) 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. |
| 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. |