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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'squash' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions squash noun (es, -) A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets. (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. A soft drink made of citrus fruits and soda water. (context, obsolete, zoo) A muskrat, short form of musquash. (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. (obsolete) Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt. This squash, this gentleman. --Shak. (obsolete) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. My fall was stopped by a terrible . --Swift Translations:  verb (squash, es) (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. Translations:         Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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