| crushing | | |
| n. (act) | 1. crushing, quelling, stifling, suppression | forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority.; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" |
| ~ prevention, bar | the act of preventing.; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" |
| ~ crackdown | severely repressive actions. |
| adj. | 2. crushing, devastating | physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination.; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing" |
| ~ destructive | causing destruction or much damage.; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism" |
| squash | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. squash, squash vine | any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits. |
| ~ squash | edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable. |
| ~ cucurbita, genus cucurbita | type genus of the Cucurbitaceae. |
| ~ autumn pumpkin, cucurbita pepo, pumpkin, pumpkin vine | a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes. |
| ~ cucurbita pepo melopepo, summer squash, summer squash vine | any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden. |
| ~ winter squash, winter squash plant | any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall. |
| ~ vine | a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface. |
| n. (food) | 2. squash | edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable. |
| ~ veg, vegetable, veggie | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant. |
| ~ summer squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden. |
| ~ winter squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months. |
| ~ squash, squash vine | any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits. |
| n. (act) | 3. squash, squash rackets, squash racquets | a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets. |
| ~ court game | an athletic game played on a court. |
| ~ undercut, cut | (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball.; "cuts do not bother a good tennis player" |
| ~ drive | (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash). |
| ~ forehand, forehand shot, forehand stroke | (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash). |
| ~ forehand drive | (sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash). |
| ~ serve, service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play.; "his powerful serves won the game" |
| ~ fault | (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area).; "he served too many double faults" |
| ~ rally, exchange | (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes.; "after a short rally Connors won the point" |
| v. (contact) | 4. crush, mash, squash, squeeze, squelch | to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition.; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" |
| ~ wring | twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid.; "wring the towels" |
| ~ press | exert pressure or force to or upon.; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot" |
| ~ stamp | crush or grind with a heavy instrument.; "stamp fruit extract the juice" |
| ~ steamroller | crush with a steamroller as if to level.; "steamroller the road" |
| ~ tread | crush as if by treading on.; "tread grapes to make wine" |
| ~ telescope | crush together or collapse.; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack" |
| squelch | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown | a crushing remark. |
| ~ derision | contemptuous laughter. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. squelch, squelch circuit, squelcher | an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise. |
| ~ circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow. |
| v. (change) | 3. quell, quench, squelch | suppress or crush completely.; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion" |
| ~ conquer, inhibit, stamp down, suppress, curb, subdue | to put down by force or authority.; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" |
| v. (perception) | 4. squelch | make a sucking sound. |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (motion) | 5. slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch, squish | walk through mud or mire.; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow" |
| ~ footslog, plod, trudge, pad, slog, tramp | walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" |
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