Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To beat, squeeze, or press into a pulp or a flattened mass; crush. synonym: crush.
- intransitive verb To put down or suppress; quash.
- intransitive verb To silence or fluster, as with crushing words.
- intransitive verb To become crushed, flattened, or pulpy, as by pressure or impact.
- intransitive verb To move with a splashing or sucking sound, as when walking through boggy ground.
- noun The act or sound of squashing.
- noun Something that has been squashed.
- noun A crushed or crowded mass.
- noun Sports A game played on a four-walled court by two or four players who use long-handled rackets to hit a small rubber ball against the front wall, with play stopping if the ball bounces twice on the floor or does not reach the front wall after a stroke.
- noun Chiefly British A citrus-based soft drink.
- adverb With a squashing sound.
- noun Any of various bushy or vining plants of the genus Cucurbita, having unisexual flowers and fleshy edible fruit with a thick rind when mature.
- noun The fruit of any of these plants, eaten as a vegetable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An indoor or court game developed from a combination of lawn-tennis and court-tennis. The court is walled on three sides, and the players strike a ball alternately above a certain line on the back wall. The ball is similar to a tennis-ball of rubber covered with felt, but is made capable of bearing harder hitting because it is designed to be driven with great force against the walls.
- To crush; smash; beat or press into pulp or a flat mass.
- To splash; make a splashing sound.
- noun The fruit of an annual plant of the gourd kind, belonging to one of several species of the genus Cucurbita; also, the plant itself.
- noun Something soft and easily crushed; something unripe and soft; especially, an unripe pea-pod.
- noun Something that has been crushed into a soft mass.
- noun A sudden fall of a heavy soft body; a shock of soft bodies.
- noun The musquash or muskrat, Fiber zibethicus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
- noun (Zoöl.) a small American beetle (
Diabrotica vittata , syn.Galeruca vittata ) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species. - noun (Zoöl.) a large black American hemipterous insect (
Coreus tristis syn.Anasa tristis ) injurious to squash vines. - transitive verb To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
- noun (Zoöl.), obsolete An American animal allied to the weasel.
- noun Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.
- noun Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
- noun A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
- noun A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets; -- called also
squash rackets .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, zoo, countable
Muskrat . - noun uncountable A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- noun UK A
soft drink made from a fruit-basedconcentrate diluted with water. - noun A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- noun obsolete, countable Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
- noun obsolete, countable, pejorative Something unripe or soft.
- noun obsolete, countable A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
- verb transitive To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to
crush . - verb transitive, intransitive To
compress orrestrict (oneself) into a small space; tosqueeze . - noun countable (
botany ) A plant and its fruit of the genusCucurbita , orgourd kind. - noun The edible fruit of this plant, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
- noun any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
- verb to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- noun edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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My next-to-last injury was also from playing squash, except this time my rather inexperienced partner decided the term squash was a verb, not a sport.
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The obvious method of doing this is to make the term squash official, thus eliminating the identity problem and giving the game the distinctiveness it deserves.
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Cover and cook for about 10 minutes, until the squash is almost tender.
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This uncommon Lita squash is a sweet cousin of zucchini.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Farm Stands of the Hudson River Valley, NY
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The origin of the word squash is interesting, considering it is the vegetable I am least likely to think about eating raw.
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If you roasted your squash this will take much less time as the squash is already cooked but will still need 10 minutes or so to assimilate flavors.
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If you roasted your squash this will take much less time as the squash is already cooked but will still need 10 minutes or so to assimilate flavors.
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Time to table: 50 minutes (presuming the squash is already roasted, otherwise 2 hours)
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Hi Lorraine - it seems that what you call squash are actually zucchini, probably a lot like this one.
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It has a relatively thin rind, which gives a little when the squash is ripe.
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