squashed

squash ¹  (skwsh, skwôsh)

n.

1. Any of various tendril-bearing plants of the genus Cucurbita, having fleshy edible fruit with a leathery rind and unisexual flowers.

2. The fruit of any of these plants, eaten as a vegetable.

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[From alteration of Narragansett askútasquash.]

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squash ²  (skwsh, skwôsh)

v. squashed, squash·ing, squash·es

v.tr.

1. To beat, squeeze, or press into a pulp or a flattened mass; crush. See Synonyms at crush.

2. To put down or suppress; quash: squash a revolt.

3. To silence or fluster, as with crushing words: squash a heckler.

v.intr.

1. To become crushed, flattened, or pulpy, as by pressure or impact.

2. To move with a splashing or sucking sound, as when walking through boggy ground.

n.

1.

a. The act or sound of squashing.

b. The fact or condition of being squashed.

2. A crushed or crowded mass: a squash of people.

3. Sports A racket game played in a closed walled court with a rubber ball.

4. Chiefly British A citrus-based soft drink.

adv.

With a squashing sound.

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[Middle English squachen, from Old French esquasser, from Vulgar Latin *exquassre : Latin ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + Latin quassre, to shatter, frequentative of quatere, to shake; see kwt- in Indo-European roots.]

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squasher n.

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Adj.

1.

squashed - that has been violently compressed; "the squashed looking nakedness of the fledgling birds"