squash

Meaning

Noun

1. A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
2. A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
3. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
4. A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
5. (obsolete) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
6. (obsolete) Something unripe or soft.
7. (obsolete) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
8. (slang) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.

Verb

1. To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
2. To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
3. To suppress; to force into submission.

Synonyms

pumpkin

crush

squeeze

press

gourd

mash

squelch

flatten

smash

marrow

pinch

oppress

bruise

pulp

compress

strain

press down

crowd

zucchini

condense

confine

cordial

enclose

jam

lock up

overwhelm

puree

put away

rack

shut up

stow

strech

suppress

tense

throng

tighten

trample

wind up

squash rackets

summer squash

stress

squash racquets

squash vine

maintain

destroy

dash

💨

melon

🍈

mess

muffle

mush

mutilate

nip

on the ground

cucurbit

overbear

weigh down

crunch

pin down

pound

💷

crumple

courgette

promote

clutch

pulverise

pulverize

clobber

crusb

put an end to

accelerate

put down

quash

quell

hubbard squash

run over

shake hands

shipwreck

juice drink

silence

bray

soften up

speed up

beetle

🪲

affirm

squish

stamp

stay

steam-roller

step on

cymbling

advance

throw down

winter squash

zzwanda [l

cushaw

recketball

tramp

squash tennis

tread

unman

embed

urge

dwell

further

dismay

grasp

grind

grip

hasten

hurry

hush

hustle

insist

vegetable marrow

juice

jumble

keep

knead

knock down

lemonade

walk over

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skwɒʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: squachen

Cognate with Middle English: quashen

Cognate with Old French: esquasser

Cognate with Latin: ex-

In summary

From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).