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Squeeze Out

Definition: Squeeze Out

Squeeze Out

Verb

1. Force out; "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts".

2. Make by laborious and precarious means; "He eked out a living as a painter".

3. Extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing; "wring out the washcloth".

4. Obtain with difficulty: "He eked out some information from the archives".

5. Form or shape by forcing through an opening; as of metal.

6. Cause to come out in a squirt, of liquids.

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


Synonyms: Squeeze Out

Synonyms: eject (v), eke out (v), extrude (v), force out (v), squirt (v), wring out (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Squeeze Out

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ejection

Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind).

Extraction

Express, squeeze out, press out.

Giving

Present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Squeeze Out

Specialty definitions using "squeeze out": PRESS OPERATORSUGAR PRESSERTO GOUGEwashing-machine operator. (references)
Etymologies containing "squeeze out": Ecthlipsis. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Squeeze Out

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The paste squeeze out of the trash under 150 bars of pressure will go into biodigesters for composting. (references)

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

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Expressions: Squeeze Out

Expressions using "squeeze out": squeeze out of squeeze out of a car. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Squeeze Out

Language Translations for "squeeze out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

pars (squeeze). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

shtrydh (express, extract, extrude, press, press out, squash, squeeze, strain, wring). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏إبتز (blackmail, carry favor, carry favour, diddle, exact, extort, outdistance, pump, sting, swindle). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

измъквам се от (elude, put off, shuffle out of, skive, slip, squeeze out of, wriggle out). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vytlaèit (dislodge, displace, eliminate, press up, supplant). (various references)

   

Danish

  

trykke ud. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uitpersen (expression, rendering, squeezing), uitknijpen, uitknýpen, uitdrukken (express), persen (oppress, press, squeeze). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

elpremi. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pursottaa. (various references)

   

French

  

soutirer, exprimer. (various references)

   

German

  

ausquetschen (crush out, grill, pump, squeeze). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kicsikar (exact, extort, to exact, to extort, to extract, to hijack, to rack, to wheedle out of), kicsal (to call forth, to elicit, to juggle, to screw out, trick up). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spremere (press, squeeze). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

絞り出す. (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おし す (to crowd out, to push out, to squeeze out), もみ す (to begin to squeeze, to squeeze out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eezesquay outay

   

Romanian

  

ieşi dintr-o maşinã (squeeze out of a car). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выжать (press out, wring out). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sginn (gush out, protrude). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

istisnuti (extrude, press out, push out, supersede, supplant). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

exprimir (crush, dry, express, press, press out, squeeze, wring, wring out), excluir (bar, cut out, debar, except, exclude, include out, keep out, preclude, reject, rule out, shut out). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

frampressa (ejaculate, extract, utter). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sıkarak çıkarmak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Squeeze Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-o-q-s-t-u-u-z"

-3 letters: squeeze.

-4 letters: outsee, queues, quotes, toques, tuques.

-5 letters: quest, queue, quote, toque, touse, tuque, usque.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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