Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shattered; depressed; “used up.”

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mush.

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Examples

  • It just hurts me on a number of levels to see the written word mushed and reshaped into something "sellable" and/or "watchable".

    My thoughts on the LOST season 5 premiere pabba 2009

  • Blindly, instinctively, she took the gee pole and whip, and "mushed" the dogs out on the trail.

    The White Silence 2010

  • In two separate bowls, the batters looked different enough in colour to make separate layers, but the thinness of the batter just meant that it all kind of mushed together.

    A Cup of Meh Sarah 2009

  • Blindly, instinctively, she took the gee pole and whip, and "mushed" the dogs out on the trail.

    THE WHITE SILENCE 2010

  • In two separate bowls, the batters looked different enough in colour to make separate layers, but the thinness of the batter just meant that it all kind of mushed together.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Sarah 2009

  • We mixed it up in a meausureing cup (the hotdog had to be kind of mushed up first * barf, barf*) and poured it into a shot glass which we passed around and had to take a drink out of it.

    super-suzan Diary Entry super-suzan 2006

  • On we "mushed," past the cliff, the boats, and out upon the ice.

    A Woman who went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan

  • I was out of everything more nourishing than hope and one slab of pay-streaked bacon, when two tenderfeet 'mushed' up the gulch, and invited themselves into my cabin to watch me pan.

    Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • After that the dogs were strung out afresh, and Julyman "mushed" them on, and brought them abreast of the train of the waiting Oolak.

    The Heart of Unaga Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • Blindly, instinctively, she took the gee pole and whip, and "mushed" the dogs out on the trail.

    The White Silence 1900

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