Squash

English Meaning

An American animal allied to the weasel.

1. Any of various tendril-bearing plants of the genus Cucurbita, having fleshy edible fruit with a leathery rind and unisexual flowers.
2. The fruit of any of these plants, eaten as a vegetable.
3. To beat, squeeze, or press into a pulp or a flattened mass; crush. See Synonyms at crush.
4. To put down or suppress; quash: squash a revolt.
5. To silence or fluster, as with crushing words: squash a heckler.
6. To become crushed, flattened, or pulpy, as by pressure or impact.
7. To move with a splashing or sucking sound, as when walking through boggy ground.
8. The act or sound of squashing.
9. The fact or condition of being squashed.
10. A crushed or crowded mass: a squash of people.
11. Sports A racket game played in a closed walled court with a rubber ball.
12. Chiefly British A citrus-based soft drink.
13. With a squashing sound.