Complete Definition of "squash"

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Pronunciation
British English IPA|/'skw��/
American English IPA|/'skw��/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��|-��

Noun
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  1. A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.
  2. botany 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.

  1. UK A soft drink made of citrus fruits and soda water.
  2. context|obsolete|zoo A muskrat, short form of musquash.
  3. obsolete Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.

#:Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. --Shak.

  1. obsolete Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.

#:This squash, this gentleman. --Shak.

  1. obsolete A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

#:My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift

Translations
trans-top|game much like rackets
Finnish: squash, t|fi|kössi
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Kurdish: KUchar|سک�اش
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trans-top|plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita
Finnish: t|fi|kurpitsa
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Kurdish: KUchar|ک�د�
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ttbc|Spanish: ayote
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Verb
en-verb|squash|es

  1. transitive To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

Translations
trans-top|to beat or press into pulp or flat mass
Finnish: t|fi|murskata, t|fi|puristaa, t|fi|soseuttaa
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Related terms
squash beetle

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