Squash

Definition of Squash

Pronunciation: skwǒsht

(Zool.) An American animal allied to the weasel.

(Bot.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

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.

v. t.

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

[imp. & p. p. Squashed (skwǒsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Squashing.]

Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.

Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod.

- Shak.

Hence, something unripe or soft; - used in contempt.

A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

My fall was stopped by a terrible squash.

- Swift.

A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets; - called also squash rackets.

Related Words

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

Browse

Square foot
Square knot
Square measure
Square number
Square piano
Square root of a number
Square sail
Square stern
Square-rigged
Square-toed
Square-toes
Squarely
Squareness
Squarer
Squarish
Squarrose
Squarrose-slashed
Squarroso-dentate
Squarrous
Squarrulose
-Squash-
Squash beetle
Squash bug
Squasher
Squashiness
Squashy
Squat
Squat snipe
Squaterole
Squatter
Squatter sovereignty
Squatty
Squaw
Squaw huckleberry
Squaw man
Squaw vine
Squawberry
Squawk
Squawk duck
Squawking thrush
Squawl

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z