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Noun

  1. A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.
  2. A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
  3. :Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, C. moschata, and the great winter squash, C. maxima, but the distinctions are not clear.
  4. A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
  5. :When I'm thirsty I drink squash, it tastes much nicer than plain water.
  6. In the Context of A muskrat, short form of musquash.
  7. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
  8. :Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. --Shak.
  9. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
  10. :This squash, this gentleman. --Shak.
  11. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
  12. :My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift


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Verb

  1. To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.


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Category:Algonquian derivations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Squash \Squash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Squashed (skw[o^]sht); p.
pr. & vb. n. Squashing.] [OE. squachen, OF. escachier,
esquachier, to squash, to crush, F. ['e]cacher, perhaps from
(assumed) LL. excoacticare, fr. L. ex + coactare to
constrain, from cogere, coactum, to compel. Cf. Cogent,
Squat, v. i.]
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Squash \Squash\, n.
1. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe
pod of pease.
[1913 Webster]

Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a
boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
"This squash, this gentleman." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

3. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft
bodies. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]

My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]

4. A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with
soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets; -- called
also squash rackets.
[PJC]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Squash \Squash\ (skw[o^]sh), n. [Cf. Musquash.] (Zool.)
An American animal allied to the weasel. [Obs.] --Goldsmith.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Squash \Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw,
green, immature, applied to fruit and vegetables which were
used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine
apple.] (Bot.)
A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd
kind.
[1913 Webster]

Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is
called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China
squash, Cucurbita moschata, and the great winter
squash, Cucurbita maxima, but the distinctions are
not clear.
[1913 Webster]

Squash beetle (Zool.), 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.

Squash bug (Zool.), a large black American hemipterous
insect (Coreus tristis syn. Anasa tristis) injurious
to squash vines.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet squash
n 1: any of numerous annual tendril-bearing trailing plants of
the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
[syn: squash vine]
2: edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
3: a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players
who strike the ball with long-handled rackets [syn: {squash
racquets}, squash rackets]
v : to compress with violence, out of natural shape or
condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
[syn: crush, squelch, mash, squeeze]
[also: squashes (pl)]
Moby Dictionary
abrade , annihilate , answer , answer conclusively , argue down ,
asphyxiate , assibilate , assibilation , atomize , bear , beat ,
black out , bottle up , bray , break into pieces , break to pieces ,
break up , brecciate , bruise , butter , buzz , cataplasm , censor , chew ,
choke , choke off , clamp down on , clay , comminute , confound ,
confute , contradict , contriturate , controvert , cork , cork up ,
crack down on , cram , crash , crowd , crumb , crumble , crunch , crush ,
cushion , cut to pieces , damp down , defeat , demolish , dental pulp ,
deny , diffuse , disintegrate , dismiss , disperse , dispose of ,
disrupt , drove , drown , dumbfound , ease , effervesce , effervescence ,
effervescing , extinguish , finish , fission , fizz , fizzle , fizzling ,
floor , flour , fluff , fragment , frication , frictional rustling , gag ,
gentle , grain , granulate , granulize , grate , grind , grind to powder ,
gumbo , hiss , hissing , hold down , horde , hugger-mugger , hush ,
hush up , hush-hush , hushing , jam , jump on , keep down , keep under ,
kill , knead , laxate , levigate , limber , limber up , lisp , loosen ,
macerate , make mincemeat of , mash , massage , masticate , mellow ,
milden , mill , mince , mire , mollify , muck , mud , muffle , multitude ,
mush , muzzle , nonplus , ooze , overthrow , overturn , overwhelm ,
paper pulp , parry , paste , pestle , pith , plaster , plump , porridge ,
poultice , pound , pour water on , powder , press , pudding , pulp ,
pulp lead , pulpify , pulpwood , pulverize , push , put down , put out ,
put to silence , quash , quell , quench , quiet , quieten , rag pulp ,
rebut , reduce to powder , reduce to silence , refute , relax , repress ,
rhonchus , sauce , scatter , scrunch , settle , shake up , shard ,
shatter , shiver , shred , shush , shushing , shut down on , shut up ,
sibilance , sibilate , sibilation , siffle , sigmatism , silence , siss ,
sissing , sit down on , sit on , sizz , sizzle , sizzling , slime , slip ,
slob , slop , slosh , sludge , slush , smash , smash all opposition ,
smash up , smother , sneeze , sneezing , sniff , sniffle , snore , snort ,
snuff , snuff out , snuffle , soft-pedal , soften , soften up , spit ,
splinter , splutter , sponge , sputter , squab , squeeze , squelch ,
squish , stamp out , stanch , sternutation , stertor , stifle , still ,
strangle , strike dumb , stultify , subdue , subvert , suffocate ,
sulfate pulp , sulfite pulp , supple , suppress , swill , swish ,
tenderize , throng , throttle , tone down , trample out ,
trample underfoot , triturate , tune down , undermine , upset , wheeze ,
whish , whistle , whistling , white lead , white noise , whiz , whoosh ,
wood pulp , zip


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