SQUASH
\skwˈɒʃ], \skwˈɒʃ], \s_k_w_ˈɒ_ʃ]\
Definitions of SQUASH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
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edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
By Princeton University
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a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
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edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.
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An American animal allied to the weasel.
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A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
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To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
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Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.
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Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
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A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
By Oddity Software
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A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.
By Noah Webster.
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Something soft and easily crushed; a mashed object or mass; the sudden fall of a soft body; a plant of various kinds belonging to the cucumber family; also, its fruit.
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Colloquially, to crush, especially into a flat mass or pulp.
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Colloquially, to fall in a soft mass.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To beat or press into pulp: to crush flat.
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A sudden fall or shock of soft bodies: anything soft and easily crushed, anything soft or unripe.
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A plant of the genus Cucurbita, C. Melopepo, and its fruit, cultivated in America as an article of food. "Squash is an Indian kind of pumpion that grows apace."-Boyle.
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The American name for a species of weasel. "The smell of our weasels, and ermines, and polecats is fragrance itself, when compared to that of the squash and the skunk."-Goldsmith.
By Daniel Lyons
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The fleshy edible fruit of a trailing plant; also, the palnt.
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A soft or mashed object.
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The sudden fall of a heavy, soft, or bursting body.
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Squashy.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Something soft and easily crushed; something unripe or soft; a sudden fall of a heavy soft body; a shock of soft bodies.
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A species of gourd.
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To best or press into pulp or a flat mass.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
