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# squash

«squash» in Mova's school dictionary: **To press or crush something so it becomes flat or out of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (squash, squashes, squashed, squashing); noun (squash — a sport, a drink; a squash, squashes — a vegetable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To press or crush something so it becomes flat or out of shape: squash a can, a squashed sandwich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#m1)

2) To squeeze into a small space: we squashed into the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#m2)

3) A squash is a vegetable that grows on a vine, like butternut squash, courgette (zucchini) or pumpkin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#m3)

4) Squash is a sport played with rackets and a small rubber ball in a room with four walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#m4)

5) In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, squash is a sweet fruit drink made by adding water to concentrate (cordial). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science and recycling, squashing cans and boxes makes them take up less space; a squashed object has the same mass but a different shape. In cooking and gardening, squashes are plants of the gourd family grown in autumn. In everyday life, "it's a squash" means it's crowded. In PE, squash is a fast racket game. Phrases: "squash flat", "squash in", "squashed together", "butternut squash", "orange squash".

### examples

- Squash the cans before you put them in the recycling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#x1)
- My sandwich got squashed at the bottom of my bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#x2)
- Five of us squashed into the back of the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#x3)
- We grew a big butternut squash in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#x4)
- Would you like some orange squash? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#x5)
- Dad plays squash on Fridays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#x6)
- Don't squash the bugs; put them outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#x7)
- It was a real squash on the bus this morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#x8)
- The Carl put his coat on the ground, opened it carefully, and revealed a store of blackberries, squashed, crushed, mangled, democratic, ill-looking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squash/#x9)

### note

Third person: squashes (add -es). Squash as a drink or sport is uncountable ("a glass of squash"); as a vegetable it is countable ("two squashes"). In the USA and Canada the drink is not usually called squash; people buy juice or drink mix instead. "Squash" and "squish" mean almost the same.

### In the corpora

- [A gas spreads out to fill all the space it is in, and it can be squashed because its particles are far apart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/7/)
- [Squashed air pushes back hard, which is how bike tyres and footballs work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/8/)
- [Squash is a solution: more water makes it more dilute, and a sieve or filter cannot take the cordial back out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/12/)
- [Squash a blueberry on your T-shirt and the purple mark refuses to wash out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/0/)
- [Meanwhile Ruby, Mia's best friend since Reception, was squashed onto the arm of the sofa by six new kids.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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