squash

noun · verb · interjectionA2

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noun

Plural noun:

squashessquash

1.
(uncountable)A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
She plays squash every Saturday.
2.
(countable, uncountable)A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: cordial, high juice
3.
(countable, uncountable)A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
4.
(countable, uncountable)(biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
Đồng nghĩa: smear
5.
(countable, obsolete)Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
6.
(countable, derogatory, obsolete)Something unripe or soft.
7.
(countable, obsolete)A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
8.
(countable, slang, uncountable)(slang, professional wrestling) 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.
9.
(botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
11.
(countable, uncountable)(cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
We ate squash and green beans.
12.
(countable, obsolete)Muskrat.

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verb

V_es/s

squashes

V_ing/Gerund

squashing

V_ed/pp

squashed

1.
(transitive)To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
2.
(intransitive, transitive)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.
We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
3.
(transitive)To suppress; to force into submission.

interjection

1.
(obsolete)The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by quashen, quassen, from esquasser, escasser (to crush, shatter, destroy, break), from, from ex- + quassare (to shatter) (see quash).