squash

/skwɒʃ/ · noun

Meaning

A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
Something unripe or soft.
A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
To suppress; to force into submission.
A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
Muskrat.

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