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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishsquachen,squatchen, fromOld Frenchesquacher,escachier, fromVulgar Latin*excoāctiāre, fromLatinex +coāctāre. Probably influenced byMiddle Englishquashen,quassen, fromOld Frenchesquasser,escasser(“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), fromVulgar Latin*exquassare, fromLatinex- +quassare(“to shatter”) (seequash).

Noun

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A game of squash

squash (countable anduncountable,pluralsquashes)

  1. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
    She playssquash every Saturday.
    • 1922,Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎[2]:
      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 asquash-racket against a wall.
    • 2007, James Zug,Squash: A History of the Game‎[3], Scribner,→ISBN, page 1:
      The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of thesquash tradesman.
  3. A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-basedconcentrate diluted with water or milk.
    Synonyms:cordial,(uncommon)high juice
    • 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan,The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:
      Sure. I pour hotsquash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here.
    When I'm thirsty I drinksquash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
  4. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
    It's a bit of asquash in this small room.
  5. (biology) A preparation made by placing material on aslide(flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.[1]
    Synonym:smear
  6. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
  7. (obsolete, countable, derogatory) Something unripe or soft.
  8. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
  9. (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
    • Orr, James (18 August 2014), “WWE SummerSlam 2014: How Twitter reacted toJohn Cena vsBrock Lesnar”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[4],The Independent, retrieved30 July 2015
      It was one of the most shockingWWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minutesquash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent.
Derived terms
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Related terms
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Descendants
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Translations
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the sport
soft drink—seecordial
See also
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Verb

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squash (third-person singular simple presentsquashes,present participlesquashing,simple past and past participlesquashed)

  1. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; tocrush.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) Tocompress orrestrict (oneself) into a small space; tosqueeze.
    Somehow, shesquashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
    We all managed tosquash into Mum's tiny car.
  3. (transitive) Tosuppress; toforce intosubmission.
    • 2006, Chris Rodda,Liars for Jesus,→ISBN, page390:
      A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania andsquashed the rebellion.
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Translations
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to beat or press into pulp or flat mass
to compress
to suppress

Interjection

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squash

  1. (obsolete)The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.
    • 1848,The Lotus, page40:
      […] 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, […]
    • 1881, Frederick Lancelot H. Morrice,The Nightless North: A Walk Across Lapland, page74:
      […] to catch all the rain[…]; my boots went squash, squash, as I turned on to the high road,[…]
    • 2001, Peter Cozzens,Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Struggle for Apacheria. volume one, Stackpole Books,→ISBN, page355:
      1883, May 5[…] The words had only left his mouth when his feet slipped from under him, and with a dull, sickening thud, he wentsquash! into the water, waist-deep. We made our way to bed in a silence that was painful.
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Etymology 2

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Shortening ofNarragansettaskutasquash(“[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)”), fromaskut(“green, raw”) +‎asquash(“eaten”).[2]

Noun

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Varieties of squash

squash (countable anduncountable,pluralsquashorsquashes)

  2. (botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genusCucurbita, orgourd kind.
    1. Cucurbita maxima, includinghubbard squash,great winter squash,buttercup squash, and some varieties ofpumpkins.
    2. Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn.Cucurbita mixta),cushaw squash.
    3. Cucurbita moschata,butternut squash,Barbary squash,China squash.
    4. Cucurbita pepo, mostpumpkins,acorn squash,summer squash,zucchini.
  3. (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
    1. Lagenaria siceraria (syn.Cucurbita verrucosa),calabash,long-neck squash.
  4. (cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
    We atesquash and green beans.
Hyponyms
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Derived terms
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Translations
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plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita—see alsogourd

Etymology 3

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Clipping ofmusquash.

Noun

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squash (pluralsquashes)

  1. (obsolete, countable)Muskrat.
    • 1705,William Dampier,A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World:
      Thesquash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.

Further reading

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References

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  1. ^Edwin Benzel Steen,Dictionary of Biology, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971.[1]
  2. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “squash”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.

Basque

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsquash.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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squash inan

  1. squash(sport)

Declension

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Declension ofsquash(inan C-stem)
indefinitesingularpluralproximal plural
absolutivesquashsquashasquashaksquashok
ergativesquasheksquashaksquasheksquashok
dativesquashisquasharisquasheisquashoi
genitivesquashensquasharensquashensquashon
comitativesquashekinsquasharekinsquashekinsquashokin
causativesquashengatiksquasharengatiksquashengatiksquashongatik
benefactivesquashentzatsquasharentzatsquashentzatsquashontzat
instrumentalsquashezsquashazsquashezsquashotaz
innesivesquashetansquasheansquashetansquashotan
locativesquashetakosquashekosquashetakosquashotako
allativesquashetarasquasherasquashetarasquashotara
terminativesquashetarainosquasherainosquashetarainosquashotaraino
directivesquashetarantzsquasherantzsquashetarantzsquashotarantz
destinativesquashetarakosquasherakosquashetarakosquashotarako
ablativesquashetatiksquashetiksquashetatiksquashotatik
partitivesquashik———
prolativesquashtzat———

Further reading

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  • “squash”, inEuskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque),Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Czech

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CzechWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediacs

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishsquash.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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squash m inan (relational adjectivesquashový)

  1. (sports)squash

Declension

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Declension ofsquash (velar masculine inanimate)
singularplural
nominativesquashsquashe
genitivesquashesquashů
dativesquashisquashům
accusativesquashsquashe
vocativesquashisquashe
locativesquashisquashích
instrumentalsquashemsquashi

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Danish

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DanishWikipedia has an article on:
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Noun

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squash c (singular definitesquashen,plural indefinitesquashorsquasher)

  1. squash(sport)

Declension

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Declension ofsquash
common
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativesquashsquashensquash
squasher		squashene
squasherne
genitivesquashssquashenssquashs
squashers		squashenes
squashernes

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromEnglishsquash.

Noun

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squash n (uncountable,nodiminutive)

  1. squash(sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets)
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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squash

  1. inflection ofsquashen:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

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Finnish

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Etymology

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FromEnglishsquash.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈskuɑs/,[ˈs̠kuɑ̝s̠]
  • IPA(key): /ˈskuɑʃ/,[ˈs̠kuɑ̝ʃ]
  • Rhymes:-uɑs
  • Syllabification(key):squ‧ash
  • Hyphenation(key):squ‧ash

Noun

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squash

  1. (sports)squash
    Synonym:kössi

Declension

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Inflection ofsquash (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominativesquashsquashit
genitivesquashinsquashien
partitivesquashiasquasheja
illativesquashiinsquasheihin
singularplural
nominativesquashsquashit
accusativenom.squashsquashit
gen.squashin
genitivesquashinsquashien
partitivesquashiasquasheja
inessivesquashissasquasheissa
elativesquashistasquasheista
illativesquashiinsquasheihin
adessivesquashillasquasheilla
ablativesquashiltasquasheilta
allativesquashillesquasheille
essivesquashinasquasheina
translativesquashiksisquasheiksi
abessivesquashittasquasheitta
instructive—squashein
comitativeSee the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms ofsquash(Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

Derived terms

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compounds

Further reading

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French

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FrenchWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsquash.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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squash m (pluralsquashs)

  1. (sports)(uncountable)squash
    jouer ausquash ―to playsquash
  2. squash game
    On s'est fait deuxsquashs aujourd'hui.
    We've played twogames of squash today.
  3. squash court
    La ville a construit troissquashs municipaux.
    The town has built three municipalsquash courts.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsquash.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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squash m (definite singularsquashen,indefinite pluralsquasher,definite pluralsquashene)

  1. squash (fruit)
  2. squash (sport)
  3. squash (soft drink)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsquash.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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squash m (definite singularsquashen,indefinite pluralsquashar,definite pluralsquashane)

  1. squash (fruit)
  2. squash (sport)
  3. squash (soft drink)

Polish

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PolishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediapl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishsquash.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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squash m inan

  1. squash(sport)

Declension

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Declension ofsquash
singular
nominativesquash
genitivesquasha
dativesquashowi
accusativesquasha
instrumentalsquashem
locativesquashu
vocativesquashu

Further reading

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  • squash in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishsquash.

Noun

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squash m (uncountable)

  1. squash(sport)

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Slovak

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsquash.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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squash m inan (genitivesingularsquashu,declension pattern ofstroj)

  1. squash(sport)

Declension

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Declension ofsquash
singulare tantum
nominativesquash
genitivesquashu
dativesquashu
accusativesquash
locativesquashi
instrumentalsquashom

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Further reading

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  • “squash”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2026

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈskwaʃ/[ˈskwaʃ],/esˈkwaʃ/[esˈkwaʃ]
  • Rhymes:-aʃ
  • Syllabification:squash

Noun

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squash m (uncountable)

  1. squash(sport)

Further reading

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Swedish

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SwedishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediasv
SwedishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediasv

Noun

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squash c

  1. (sports)squash

Declension

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Declension ofsquash
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitesquashsquashs
definitesquashensquashens
pluralindefinite——
definite——

Derived terms

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Noun

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squash c

  1. (botany)squash (plant and fruit)
    Synonym:zucchini

Declension

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Declension ofsquash
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitesquashsquashs
definitesquashensquashens
pluralindefinitesquashersquashers
definitesquashernasquashernas

References

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