squash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
natural-sciences
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: 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).
Inflected forms:
form: squashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: squashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She plays squash every Saturday.
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman.
gloss: A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here.
When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
gloss: A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
gloss: A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
gloss: Something unripe or soft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
obsolete
gloss: A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
gloss: An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
gloss: To suppress; to force into submission.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.
Synonyms: press
Related words: quash
racketball
Derived words: Des Moines squash
orange squash
pepper squash
squanter-squash
squashable
squash ball
squash court
squash player
squash racket
squash racquets
squash shot
squash tennis
squashability
squashberry
squashee
squash the beef
squash up
squelch
squish
unsquash
wash and squash
squashy
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