squashverb
uk/skwɒʃ/us/skwɑːʃ/squash verb (MAKE FLAT)
B2 [ T ] to crush something into a flat shape:
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- My sandwiches had got squashed at the bottom of my bag.
- She'd sat on her orange and squashed it.
- The fruit had got squashed under the weight of all the other food.
- One of the other kids had squashed her model and she was very upset.
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Squeezing and grinding
- compact
- compress
- compression
- concertina
- constrict
- crush
- depress
- firm
- gnash your teeth idiom
- grind
- ground
- mill
- pack
- pinch
- pound
- pulp
- pulverize
- scrunch
- shut
- shut sth in sth
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squash verb (PUSH)
B2 [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ] to push yourself, a person, or thing into a small space:
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Inserting and forcing things into other things
- cram
- dig (sth) into sb/sth
- embed
- embedded
- imbed
- in
- insert
- inset
- interlace
- interpolate
- interpose
- intersperse
- interspersed
- jam
- let
- let sth into sth
- lodge
- stick
- thread
- wedge
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squash verb (END)
[ T ] to stop something from continuing to exist or happen, by forceful action:
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- suppression
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
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squashnoun
uk/skwɒʃ/us/skwɑːʃ/squash noun (PUSH)
[ S ] a situation when there is not much room:
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Full
- alive
- alive with sth idiom
- awash
- be a rich seam to mine idiom
- be riddled with sth idiom
- bristle
- burst
- congested
- cramped
- crowded
- heaping
- heaving
- heavy with sth idiom
- ridden
- riddled
- rife
- sardine
- saturate
- saturation point
- seam
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squash noun (SPORT)
B1 [ U ] a game played between two or four people on a special closed playing area that involves hitting a small rubber ball against a wall
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Tennis & racket sports
- ball boy/girl
- birdie
- break
- break point
- deuce
- double
- fault
- groundstroke
- half-volley
- knock
- lawn tennis
- match point
- passing shot
- racket
- racquetball
- rally
- seed
- single
- sweet spot
- tennis shoe
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squash noun (DRINK)
[ U ] UK a drink made from fruit juice, water, and sugar or sweetener
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Soft drinks
- apple juice
- bitter lemon
- bottled
- bottled water
- cider
- cream soda
- fizz
- ginger
- ginger ale
- juice
- lassi
- lemonade
- mineral water
- mixer
- orangeade
- peachick
- pinta
- root beer
- sarsaparilla
- tonic
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squash noun (VEGETABLE)
[ C or U ] plural squash or squashes a type of large vegetable with a hard skin and a lot of seeds at its centre
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Types of vegetable
- alfalfa
- allium
- artichoke
- arugula
- asparagus
- chicory
- corn on the cob
- cos lettuce
- courgette
- cress
- lettuce
- mooli
- new potatoes
- okra
- onion
- shiitake mushroom
- shitake mushroom
- spinach
- spring greens
- spring onion
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