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/skwˈizɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Squeeze v. t. (past & past part. squeezed; pres. part. squeezing)

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship.

Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush. "In a civil war, people must expect to be crushed and squeezed toward the burden."

To force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.

Synonyms: To compress; hug; pinch; gripe; crowd.

Squeeze v. i. To press; to urge one's way, or to pass, by pressing; to crowd; often with through, into, etc.; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd.

noun

Squeezing n.

The act of pressing; compression; oppression.

pl. That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.

Same as Squeeze, n., 2.

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Etymology of 'Squeezing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Squeezing" Quotes from Famous Books

... tell her all—everything," I said, squeezing her hands, while the tears were raining down ...

— The Late Miss Hollingford • Rosa Mulholland

... M. Brown Sequard on guinea pigs, quoted by Mr. Darwin,[298] suggest that the form of the serpent may be due to its having lost its legs by successive accidents in squeezing through narrow places, and that the wounds having been followed by disease, the creature may have bitten the limbs off, in which case the loss might have been very readily transmitted to offspring; ...

— Evolution, Old & New - Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, - as compared with that of Charles Darwin • Samuel Butler

... she had left abutted upon one corner of the ring. Squeezing her way after her guide through the seated men, she crossed the end of the hall and entered a similar dressing-room at the other corner of ...

— The Game • Jack London

... in the eighteenth century consisted merely of three iron-sheathed cylinders, two of them set against the third, turned by wind, water or cattle. The canes, tied into small bundles for greater compression, were given a double squeezing while passing through the mill. The juice expressed found its way through a trough into the boiling house while the flattened stalks, called mill trash or megass in the British colonies and bagasse in Louisiana, were carried to sheds and left to dry for later ...

— American Negro Slavery - A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime • Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

... what's it you want, Kitty?" asked John squeezing her plump arm, as if in compensation for ...

— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith

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