Squash



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• v.压碎, 挤压; n.南瓜
• ［英］ v.压碎, 挤压 ( to press or crush)
• ［例］ Some of the berries at bottom have been squashed.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb

• Etymology: alteration of Middle English squachen to crush, annul, from Anglo-French esquacher, from Old French es- ex- + quachier to hide from view, from Vulgar Latin *coacticare to press together — more at cache
• Date: 1565
• transitive verb
  • 1. to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass ; crush
  • 2. put down, suppress <squash a revolt>
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to flatten out under pressure or impact
  • 2. to proceed with a splashing or squelching sound <squash through the mud>
  • 3. squeeze, press
• ? squasher noun

II. noun

• Date: 1590
• 1. obsolete something soft and easily crushed; specifically an unripe pod of peas
• 2. the sudden fall of a heavy soft body or the sound of such a fall
• 3. squelch 1
• 4. a crushed mass
• 5. British sweetened citrus fruit juice often served with added soda water
• 6. a singles or doubles game played in a 4-wall court with a long-handled racket and a rubber ball that can be hit off any number of walls

III. adverb

• Date: 1766
• with a squash or a squashing sound

IV. noun (plural squashes or squash)

• Etymology: by shortening & alteration from earlier isquoutersquash, from Narragansett askútasquash
• Date: 1634
• any of various fruits of plants (genus Cucurbita) of the gourd family widely cultivated as vegetables; also a plant and especially a vine that bears squashes — compare summer squash, winter squash

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