adverb |
1. With a squashing sound. |
|
noun |
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. |
3. The act or sound of squashing. |
4. The fact or condition of being squashed. |
5. A crushed or crowded mass: a squash of people. |
6. Sports A racket game played in a closed walled court with a rubber ball. |
7. Chiefly British A citrus-based soft drink. |
|
verb-intransitive |
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. |
|
verb-transitive |
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. |
|
