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# mash

«mash» in Mova's school dictionary: **to crush it into a soft mass** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (mash, mashes, mashed, mashing); noun (mash, uncountable; a mash)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To mash food is to crush it into a soft mass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#m1)

2) Mash is mashed potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#m2)

3) Mash is a soft mixture of grain and water fed to animals or used in making drinks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#m3)

4) A mash-up is a mix of two songs, videos or ideas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking, you mash potatoes, bananas or avocado with a fork or masher. In Britain "sausage and mash" is a common meal. Phrases: "mashed potatoes", "potato masher", "mash up".

### examples

- Mash the bananas with a fork. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#x1)
- We had sausage and mash for tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#x2)
- I like my potatoes mashed with butter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#x3)
- Grandad feeds the hens a warm mash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#x4)
- Mash the avocado to make guacamole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#x5)
- The baby food is mashed so it is easy to swallow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#x6)
- Their song is a mash-up of two old hits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/#x7)

### note

Verb is regular: mashed, mashing; he mashes. "Mash" as food is uncountable: "some mash". Do not confuse with "mesh" (a net).

### In the corpora

- [Paper is soaked and mashed into new paper, and plastic bottles can be spun into threads for fleece jackets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/3/)
- [And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.269/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mash» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mash/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.