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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Squash \Squash\ (skw[o^]sh), noun [Cf. {Musquash}.] (Zo["o]l.) An American animal allied to the weasel. [Obs.] --Goldsmith.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Squash \Squash\, noun [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.
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.
{Squash beetle} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), a large black American hemipterous insect ({Coreus tristis} syn. {Anasa tristis}) injurious to squash vines.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Squash \Squash\, verb (used with an object) [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}, verb (used without an object)] To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Squash \Squash\, noun
1. 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.
2. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt. ''This squash, this gentleman.'' --Shak.
3. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. --Arbuthnot.
My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift.
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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
squash
noun
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}]
verb: 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)]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
260 Moby Thesaurus words for "squash": 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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