squashes
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Definitions ofsquashes
- A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
Example: "When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water."
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
Example: "It's a bit of a squash in this small room."
- Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
- Something unripe or soft.
- A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
- An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
- To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
Example: "Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry."
- To suppress; to force into submission.
- A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
- Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
Example: "We ate squash and green beans."
- Muskrat.
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