squash
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Is squash a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.Examples: "She plays squash every Saturday."; "Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall."uncountable
2. (biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.Synonyms: smear#Nouncountableuncountable
3. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.countableobsolete
4. (obsolete, countable, derogatory) Something unripe or soft.countablederogatoryobsolete
5. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.countableobsolete
6. (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.Examples: "It was one of the most shocking WWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minute squash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent."countableslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.transitive
2. (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.Examples: "Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry."; "We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car."Synonyms: condenseintransitivetransitive
3. (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.Examples: "A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion."transitive
intj (English)
1. (obsolete) The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.Examples: "[…] rain, too, had lately fallen, and had decidedly not evaporated, since, at every step, I went squash! squash! up to the tops of my boots, and many times very extent, stretching to the eastward, […]"; "[…] to catch all the rain […]; my boots went squash, squash, as I turned on to the high road, […]"; "1883, May 5 […] The words had only left his mouth when his feet slipped from under him, and with a dull, sickening thud, he went squash! into the water, waist-deep. We made our way to bed in a silence that was painful."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.countableuncountable
2. (botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.countableuncountable
3. (botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.countableuncountable
4. (botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.countableuncountable
5. (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.countableuncountable
6. (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.countableuncountable
noun (English)
1. (obsolete, countable) Muskrat.Examples: "The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat."countableobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary