Squash

Definition: Squash

Squash

Noun

1. Any of numerous annual tendril-bearing trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits.

2. Edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable.

3. A game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets.

Verb

1. To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "squash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Note: Squash \Squash\, noun. [Massachusetts Indian asq, plural asquash, raw, green, immaturate, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple.]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Slang

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Squash

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Impulse

Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe.

Marsh

Noun: marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei.

Semiliquidity

Verb: inspissate, incrassate; thicken, mash, squash, churn, beat up.

Emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture; marsh .

Softness

Verb: render -soft. Adjective: soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper; mash, knead, squash.

Crosswords: Squash

Dutch (squash), French (squash), German (squash), Italian (squash), Manx (squash), Swedish (squash, squash rackets, zucchini).

She told me I'm a bug, I'm a flea, she could squash me in a second. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Didn't your regiment squash the peanut pickers' revolt? (Coup de torchon; writing credit: Jean Aurenche; Bertrand Tavernier)

You make me make a phony phone call to Edward Rooney? The man could squash my nuts into oblivion. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes)

Slow, but with lots of power. Squash you like a bug, eh? (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Lu�s Filipe Rocha)

When I leave your hotel I'm gonna squash you like I'd squash a bug. (Star in the Dust; writing credit: Oscar Brodney; Lee Leighton)

Squash (1969)

Charley Squash Goes to Town (1969)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Court Quest: Playing Women's Squash in the USA and Canada, 1992-1994 (reference)

• Skillful Squash (The Skilful Series) (reference)

• Squash (Know the Sport) (reference)

• Squash Racquets: the Khan Game (reference)

• The Classic Zucchini Cookbook: 225 Recipes for All Kinds of Squash (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Squash Magazine (reference)

• Squash Player (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Squash Part 1 (reference)

• Squash Part 2 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Squash (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

(1) color slide shows a single, raw, yellow squash. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

2 square black marble cutting boards (1 large, 1 small) on a grey marble table top. The small board has a peapod split open; the large board is decorated with swipes of light blue paint and has tomatoes, carrots, squash, beans and spinach. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Craig O'Dell (left), NRCS District Conservationist, and farmer inspect squash. [Slide 97CS3123]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Oscar Stevens (left), and Eric Banks (right), NRCS Soil Conservationist, inspect a zucchini squash blossom. Stevens grows a number of unique vegetables. Local restaurants enjoy a white zucchini produced on his farm. Reginald Stevens and Darryl Herrin in t. Credit: Bob Nichols.

African American farmers, Lucile Winding and her husband Cleophas grow cucumbers, peppers, sweet corn, mustard greens, apples, persimmons, pears, potatos, squash, peas, beans, beef cattle, turkeys, ducks and chickens on their farm in Amite County, MS. Credit: USDA.

Butternut Squash in the produce section of Giant Foods in Dumfries, VA. Credit: USDA.

Closeup of a variety of squash, butternut, zucchini, scallop, acorn, and yellow straightneck. Credit: USDA.

Harvesting yellow squash. Credit: USDA.

Mr. Corneilus Williams farms five acres of vegetables for market. Here are yellow squash. Credit: USDA.

Squash bug. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Guatemala

The largest seed importer is the vegetable sector, which includes sweet corn, beets, cauliflower, onion, pepper, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, radish, cucumber, lettuce, squash, tomato, and others. (references)

India

It is expected that, within a few years, several genetically engineered agricultural products will enter the Indian market including transgenic canola, cotton, potato, soybean, squash, tomato, and seeds. (references)

Political Economy

THE BAHAMAS

The restrictions have been extended to include other varieties of produce for which the Ministry determines that local farmers (e.g. Christmas poinsettias, romaine lettuce, yellow squash, and zucchini) can meet the demand. (references)

Trade

France

Fresh vegetables such as artichokes, cucumbers, eggplants, tomatoes, lettuce, and squash are also subject to seasonal price restrictions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "squash": acorn squash ♦ buttercup squash ♦ butternut squash ♦ crookneck squash ♦ Egg squash ♦ hubbard squash ♦ lemon squash ♦ marrow squash ♦ orange squash ♦ pattypan squash ♦ Spaghetti squash ♦ squash ball ♦ squash beetle ♦ squash bug ♦ squash court ♦ squash hat ♦ squash pie ♦ squash racket ♦ squash rackets ♦ squash racquet ♦ squash racquets ♦ squash technique ♦ squash vine ♦ summer squash ♦ summer squash vine ♦ turban squash ♦ winter crookneck squash ♦ winter squash ♦ winter squash plant ♦ yellow squash. Additional references.

Beginning with "squash": squash-courts, squash-makers, squash-rackets.

Ending with "squash": guinea-squash, lime-squash.

Afrikaans

pampoen (gourd, pumpkin), muurbal. (various references)

Albanian

shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), shtrydh (express, extract, extrude, press, press out, squeeze, squeeze out, strain, wring), shtrëngoj (bind, brace, buckle, clamp, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, coerce, compel, compress, constrict, enforce, fasten, force, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, jam, keep, oblige, pinch, press, restrict, screw, shake, squeeze, strain, strangle, tighten, vice, wring), ngjeshje (compression, conciseness, congestion, cram, density, jam, jaw, jostle, squeeze), masë e shtrydhur, kungull (cucurbit, pumpkin), dyndje (congestion, cram, flux, indraft, indraught, inrush, invasion, irruption, onrush, press). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تماسك (cement, cling, coherence, cohesion, consistence, consolidate, pastiness, solidarity, solidify, steady, tenacity, unity), ‏رد يعنف, ‏الكوسا (marrow), ‏جمهرة (bags of, host, huddle, press, squadron), ‏صخب (bustling, clamor, clamour, clatter, crash, furor, hubbub, hue and cry, hustle, mayhem, pandemonium, rattle, roar, roister, rowdiness, rush, stink, uproar, vociferate), ‏عصير ليمون, ‏زجر (rebuff, snap, snub), ‏دحض (break, confute, demolish, disclaim, disproof, disprove, falsification, falsify, negative, objection, rebut, rebuttal, refutation, refute), ‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), ‏هرس (jam, mash, mashing, maul, pounding, pulverization, triturate, trituration), ‏تكدس (accumulate, jam, overcrowding, overstock, overstocked, pile up, settlement, stack), ‏تكوم (pack, settle down to, settling), ‏حشر (cram, crush, poke, push, ram, stick, thrust), ‏وضعه في مكانه (cut down on smth., put smth. right), ‏قرع النبات, ‏لعبة الإسكواش, ‏زحمة (obstruction, press, scramble, squeeze, throng). (various references)

Bulgarian 

с цопване, плодова каша, плодово питие, потушавам (clamp, extinguish, mortify, overbear, put down, put out, quash, quell, quench, repress, smother, snuff out, strangle, subdue, suppress, tread down), правя на пулп, блъскам (beat, bump up against, dash, hammer, hustle, jostle, knock, moil, pound, press, push, ram, shove, slam, smite, strike, thump), блъсканица (cram, crowd, melee, press, throng), плодов сок (crush), с плясък (flop, plop), скуош, шум от цопване с мокри обувки, тиква (knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, pumpkin), тенис на стена, турям на място, тълпа (cloud, concourse, cram, crowd, crush, drove, herd, host, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble, resort, rout, ruck, shoal, throng, train, troop), смачквам (crease, crush, jam out, press, ruck, rumple, scrunch, smash, wad), мачкам (crease, crumple, knead, mash, maul, paw, squeeze, squish, work). (various references)

Chinese 

南�"� (Pumpkin), �"扁 (squeeze). (various references)

Czech

slisovat (compress), sirup (sirup, syrup, treacle), setřít (brush away, rub down, snub, take to task, wipe, wipe off), zpražit, usadit (deflate, score off, seat, settle), umlèet (hush, muzzle, scotch, shut up, silence, stifle, still), tykev (gourd, pumpkin), tlaèenice (crowd, crush, hustle, jam, jamming, overcrowding, squeeze, throng), rozmaèkat (crush, mash), nával (crush, flush, influx, paroxysm, squeeze, surge), hra s míèem, dýnì (pumpkin). (various references)

Danish

squash-metode (squash technique), turbangræskar (turban squash), trykstyrke (compression strength, compressive strength, crushing strength, squash strength, yield strength under compression). (various references)

Dutch

pompoen (gourd, pumpkin). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

mati. (various references)

Esperanto

murbalo, kukurbo (gourd, pumpkin). (various references)

Farsi 

کوبیدن ونرم کردن , کدوی رشتی , کدومسما, له کردن (Mangle, Maul, Pummel, Quash, Rase, Scotch, Squeeze, Squelch), خفه کردن (Asphyxiate, Choke, Extinguish, Mute, Scrag, Shutup, Smolder, Smother, Stifle, Strangle, Strangulate, Suffocate, Throttle), افشره نارنج , شربت نارنج (Orangeade). (various references)

Finnish

seinäpallo, musertaa (crush, mash), litistää (flatten). (various references)

French

squash (squash rackets, squash racquets), potiron. (various references)

German

zerquetschen (crush, mash, swat, to crush, to squash), Kürbis (calabash, cucurbit, gourd, marrow, pumpkin). (various references)

Greek 

κολοκύθι (pumpkin), συνθλίβω (crush, squelch). (various references)

Hebrew 

מיץ (juice, sap), מתק (sweetness), משק�" מיץ, מעיכ�" (crushing, pulping, squashing, squeezing), למעוך (bruise, crush, press, pulverize, squeeze, stub), למחוץ (bruise, crumple, crush, mangle, maul, overwhelm, smite, wound), לפחוס (compress, flatten), קשוא (marrow, zucchini), �"לעת (calabash, gourd, pumpkin), �"וחק (density, duress, exigency, importunate, penury, pressure, stress). (various references)

Hungarian

pép (mash, mush, pap, pulp, purée, puree), tumultus (hubbub, tumult, uproar), tottyanás, tolongás (bustle, crowd, crush, general rush, jam, press, rush, squeeze), tök (cucurbit, dork, goulard, gourd, knockers, marrow, pumpkin, vegetable marrow), kása (mush, pulp), gyümölcslé (juice). (various references)

Indonesian

mencepret (snap a photograph, squash flat). (various references)

Italian

squash, soffocare (choke, quell, smother, stamp out, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter), sciroppo (julep, sirup, syrup), schiacciarsi, schiacciare (cave, clash, crack, crepitate, crush, jam, mash, overwhelm, pinch, press, push down, smash, squeeze, squelch, swat), zucca (calabash, crown, gourd, head, marrow, pate, pumpkin, vegetable marrow), umiliare (abase, humble, humble oneself, humiliate, lower, mortify, snub), ressa (crowd, press, rush, squeeze, throng), calca (congestion, crowd, crush, huddle, jam, mob, rabble, squeeze, throng). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

南�"� (pumpkin), �"�茄子 (pumpkin), スエズ運河 (multistory parking garage, scarf, scarlet, scenic mountain road, scout, skirt, sky, sky blue, sky mate, sky restaurant, skydiver, skydiving, skyjack, Skylab, sky-laboratory, skylark, skylight, skyline, skyscraper, student discount air ticket, Suez Canal, sweat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

な�"か (going south, mollification, pumpkin, softening), かぼちゃ (pumpkin), スカッシュ , とうなす (pumpkin). (various references)

Manx

squash, sooslag, milljag (mead, sweet drink), goord (gourd), broojey (bruise, compound, compress, cram, crunch, crush, mash, pound, press, pulverization, pulverize, push, ram, squelch, stamping), broo (bruise, buzz, contusion, cram, crunch, crush, grind, pounding, press, pressure, push, ring). (various references)

Maya

kuum (kettle). (various references)

Mohawk

onon'onhsera. (various references)

Papago

hahl. (various references)

Papiamen

pampuna (gourd, pumpkin). (various references)

Pig Latin

ashsquay

Portuguese

abóbora (calabash, cucurbit, gourd, pumpkin). (various references)

Romanian

se strânge (bank up, close, collect, convolve, cuddle, curl up, draw, flock, furl, herd, jam, join, mass, mob, nuzzle, pack, pile up, snuggle, squeeze, straiten), se înghesui (bunch together, crowd, hustle, jam, jostle, pack, shoal, squeeze), strivi (crush, destroy), strivire, suc de fructe (sauce, sherbet), turtire (flatting), zdrobi (break, bruise, crunch, crush, defeat, demolish, destroy, grind, mash, pound, squelch), zgomotul produs de cãderea obiectului, zdrobire (crunch, crush, the wreck of his hopes), înghesuialã (crush, rush, sardine), gloatã (band, boodle, crowd, drove, flock, heap, herd, mob, multitude, populace, press, rabble, riff raff, the many, troop), dovlecel (marrow), comprima (compress, condense, constrain, curb, hold, jam, pack, repress, sack), învãlmãşealã (bustle, confusion, crowd, hubbub, scrimmage, scuffle, scurry, stampede, stir, struggle, throng, turmoil), îngrãmãdire (block, congeries, congestion, cram, hoard), mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, stack, swarm, throng). (various references)

Russian 

сутолока (huddle), толпиться (crowd, herd, mob, overcrowd, throng), заставить замолчать (compel silence, gag, shush, silence, squelcher), пюре (mash, puree), давить (bear, crush, press, press upon, trample, tread). (various references)

Sepedi

leraka. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zvuk pri padu mekog predmeta, zgnječiti (crush, jam), vrsta tenisa, vrsta pića od limunovog soka, ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, choke, muffle, nip, quash, quell, repress, scotch, smother, stall, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), nešto zgnječeno, nešto kašasto, kaša (mash, mush, pap, porridge, pulp), gnječiti (knead, mash, tread), bundeva (pumpkin). (various references)

Shona

budzi. (various references)

Spanish

aplastar (crush, drive over, overwhelm, smash, squelch, swat). (various references)

Swedish

trängsel (crowding, crush, jam, jostle, press, scramble, squeeze, throng), squash (squash rackets, zucchini), mosa (mash, pulp), mos (mash, mush, pomace, pulp). (various references)

Thai

เบีย�"เสีย�", พืชตระกูลน้ำเต้า, บ�" (mush), การบ�", ฝูงชนที่เบีย�"เสีย�", กีฬาสควอซ. (various references)

Turkish

pelte haline getirmek, pelte gibi ezilmiş olma, meyve suyu (crush, fruit juice, juice), kalabalık (army, assemblage, cohort, concourse, congested, congestion, cram, crop, crowd, crowded, crush, drove, flock, gaggle, gathering, hive, horde, host, huddle, legion, mob, multitude, multitudinous, populous, press, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, throng, thronged, wilderness), kabak (bald, pumpkin, unripe, zucchini), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), balkabağı (pumpkin). (various references)

Turkmen 

kдdi (pumpkin), itniюik (crush). (various references)

Ukrainian

сік (juice, sap), розчавлювати, штовханина (commotion, cram, crush, hustle, jostle, jumble, throng), гарбуз (gourd, pumpkin), видавлювати сік, ондатра (beaver-rat, muskrat, musquash, ondatra, water rat), м'язга, протискуватися (corkscrew, elbow, scrape). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự ép cái dễ nén, vật bị nén, vật bị ép, cái dễ ép. (various references)

CUCURBITA, ex-. (various references)

esquasser. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "squash": squashed, squasher, squashers, squashes, squashier, squashiest, squashily, squashiness, squashinesses, squashing, squashy. (additional references)

Words ending with "squash": musquash. (additional references)

Words containing "squash": musquashes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Squash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: squach, squags, squalsh, squeash, squeesh, squese, squesh, squiz, sqush, squush. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: quash, quass.

-2 letters: sash, suqs.

-3 letters: ash, ass, has, qua, sau, sha, suq.

-4 letters: ah, as, ha, sh, uh, us.

+1 letter: buqshas, quashes, squashy.

+2 letters: musquash, quashers, squarish, squashed, squasher, squashes.

+3 letters: quamashes, sasquatch, squashers, squashier, squashily, squashing, squawfish, squeamish.

+4 letters: musquashes, squarishly, squashiest, vanquishes.

+5 letters: harquebuses, sasquatches, squashiness, squawfishes, squeamishly, usquebaughs, vanquishers.