English Explanatory Dictionary

squash

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
  2. A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
  3. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
  4. A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
  5. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
  6. Something unripe or soft.
  7. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
  8. An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
verb
  1. To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
  2. To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
  3. To suppress; to force into submission.
intj
  1. The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.
noun
  1. A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
  2. Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
  3. Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
  4. Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
  5. Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
  6. Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
  7. Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
  8. The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
noun
  1. Muskrat.
name
  1. A surname

Pronunciation

/skwɒʃ/ /skwɔʃ/ /skwɑʃ/ /skwɔɹʃ/ en-us-squash.ogg

Word forms

squash squashes squashing squashed

Etymology

From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).

Synonyms

cordial high juice smear press condense

Related words

quash racketball

Derived words

Des Moines squash orange squash pepper squash squanter-squash squashable squash ball squash court squash player squash racket squash racquets squash shot squash tennis squashability squashberry squashee squash the beef squash up squelch squish unsquash wash and squash squashy acorn squash Arikara squash banana squash black seed squash button squash custard squash egg squash gem squash guinea squash Hubbard squash Japanese squash Lakota squash mango squash Marblehead squash marrow squash onion squash opo squash pattypan squash red kuri squash scallop squash Siam squash spaghetti squash squaffle squash and gourd bee squash bee squash beetle squash bug squash knife squashlike summer squash sunburst squash turban squash winter squash yellow squash

Translations

Abenaki: wasawa Arabic: عجور Arabic: ڭْرعة Arabic: ڭرعة حمرة Arabic: ڭْرعة رطيلية Bulgarian: тиква Central Bikol: karabasa Cherokee: ᏩᎩᎦ Chinese Mandarin: 南瓜 Cree: ᐅᓵᐏᐸᐠ Czech: tykev Dutch: kalebas Esperanto: kukurbo Finnish: kurpitsa French: courge Galician: cabaza Galician: botefa Georgian: გოგრა German: Kürbis Greek: κολοκύθα Hawaiian: pū Hindi: स्क्वाश Hungarian: tök Ido: kukurbito Inuttitut: semitsik Irish: puimcín Irish: scuais Italian: zucca Japanese: 南瓜 Central Kurdish: کودی Ladino: kalavasa Lakota: wagmublu Lakota: wagmu Māori: kamokamo Māori: pāpapa Māori: paukena Mohawk: ononʼónsera Mohegan-Pequot: áskot Narragansett: askutasquash Navajo: naayízí Navajo: naayízíłtsooí Norwegian Bokmål: squash Norwegian Bokmål: skvåsj Norwegian Nynorsk: squash Norwegian Nynorsk: skvåsj Ojibwe: okosimaan Pawnee: pahuks Persian: کدو Polish: dynia Portuguese: abóbora Portuguese: moranga Portuguese: jerimum Romanian: dovlecel
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