SQUEEZED

Definition: SQUEEZED

SQUEEZED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Squeeze

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SQUEEZED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Crosswords: SQUEEZED

Books

• American History Fresh Squeezed (Brain Juice) (reference)

• Squeezed (reference)

• Squeezed and Nonclassical Light (NATO Asi Series B, Physics, Vol 190) (reference)

• Squeezed Light (reference)

• Squeezed Light: Special Issue of the Journal of Modern Optics, Vol 34: 617 (reference)

  (more book examples)

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A ghastly view of fish squeezed through the net by the tons of fish trapped within the main body of the net. Credit: Fisheries.

Fifty years ago, frozen orange juice was just a flavorless commercial flop. The only orange juice you could get back then was either squeezed from fresh oranges, mixed from a relatively tasteless concentrate, or poured from a can-and it tasted like a can! P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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He went to the hose and wet the cap through and squeezed it and put it on again

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Health

After 4 hours of reading slumped in bed, she knew she had overdone it. Her tensed head and neck muscles felt as if they were being squeezed between two giant hands. (references)

At mealtime, it is squeezed out of the gallbladder into the bile ducts to reach the intestine and mix with the fat in our food. The bile acids dissolve the fat into the watery contents of the intestine, much like detergents that dissolve grease from a frying pan. After the fat is dissolved, it is digested by enzymes from the pancreas and the lining of the intestine. (references)

Business

The construction industry has been undergoing some restructuring and there is a real prospect that many small firms will be squeezed out of the market. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

In contrast to other EU countries, the Dutch drink more fresh squeezed orange juice. (references)

South Africa

Companies with a substantial import component in their product mix have seen their profits squeezed, especially if they face high demand elasticity. (references)

Indonesia

However, high inflation and large-scale layoffs have squeezed family incomes and caused about 6 to 8 million students to drop out of school since the onset of the economic crisis, according to GOI and NGO estimates. (references)

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Expressions using "SQUEEZED": be squeezed ♦ squeezed in. Additional references.

Beginning with "SQUEEZED": squeezed-in, squeezed-out.

Ending with "SQUEEZED": just-squeezed, tube-squeezed.

Albanian

i shtrydhur (sapless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضغوط (compressed, pressed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стиснат (cheeseparing, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, mean, mingy, near, penurious, sparing, tight, tight-fisted), притиснат (crowded). (various references)

Chinese 

紧压 (squeezing). (various references)

Czech

vymaèkaný. (various references)

Danish

samlet (assembled chassis-frame, confertus, crowded, overall), taet (compact, confertus, crowded), kompakt (compact, confertus, crowded), grupperet (confertus, crowded), confertus (confertus, crowded). (various references)

Dutch

confertus (confertus, crowded). (various references)

Finnish

pusertua (burst constrict, get squeezed), puserruksissa oleva (squeezed in), puristua (be compressed, be pressed, constrict, get squeezed get jammed), likistyä (be jammed, get squeezed). (various references)

French

dense, comprimé, compact. (various references)

German

quetschte (squeezes, swatted), komprimierte. (various references)

Greek 

συμπαγής (compact, solid), πυκνός (dense, thick). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממועך (pressed, tattered), מעוך (crushed, stuck), סחוט (pressed). (various references)

Hungarian

agyonnyomja a tömeg (to be squeezed to death in the crowd). (various references)

Indonesian

tergencet (pressed). (various references)

Italian

confluente (confluent), coalescente (confertus, crowded). (various references)

Korean 

짜내�". (various references)

Manx

traastit (pressed), jingit (crammed, cramped, crowded, crushed, jammed, packed, pressed, squat, thronged, wedged). (various references)

Pig Latin

eezedsquay.(various references)

Portuguese

expremido, comprimido (cachet, compressed, pill, resume, tabloid), apertado (boxed up, clinging, closed, hard, hidebound, narrow, poky, pressed, strait, tight). (various references)

Russian 

сжимать (clasp, clench, compress, constrict, contract, grip, jam, pinch, shrank, shrunk, squeeze, strain, strangulate, tighten, vice, vise), выжатый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stešnjen (crowded, pent, straitened), isceđen. (various references)

Spanish

no diseminado (confertus, crowded), exprimido, confertus (confertus, crowded). (various references)

Swedish

inklämd (squeezed in). (various references)

Misspellings

"SQUEEZED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: queezed, skeeze, sqeeze, squeaze, squeese, squeez, squeezee, squeezwd, squese, squeze, squezze. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: squeeze.

-3 letters: suede.

-4 letters: dees, dues, seed, sued, used, zeds, zees.

-5 letters: dee, due, eds, see, sue, suq, use, zed, zee.