v
(transitive, figuratively) To assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.
v
(transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
n
Material that has crumbled away; crumbs.
n
The act by which something crumples.
v
(film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
adj
Characterised or marked by dribbling; dribbly
adv
With a fizzing sound or action.
n
The process by which something is gnawed.
v
(informal) To smush, to smash.
n
(obsolete) Preparation; arrangement; condition.
v
(transitive, Scotland, US, obsolete) To make angry; provoke; offend, incite.
v
Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
n
(obsolete, rare) The act of biting or gnawing.
v
To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
v
(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) to cause to become mushy; to crush into a paste
v
(archaic) to bristle or horripilate
adj
(of consumer goods) Having a piece or pieces broken or flaked off at the time of acquisition.
v
(obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces.
v
(UK, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
v
(transitive) To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To beshrew; to curse.
v
(informal) To squish, to smoosh.
v
Alternative spelling of smush [(transitive) to mash; or push; especially to push down or in; compress]
v
Obsolete form of smote. [simple past tense of smite]
n
An act of crushing or squeezing.
v
(Scotland, slang, dated, transitive) To crush; to quash; to squash.
n
(obsolete) Squash (plant).
n
Pronunciation spelling of squash. [(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.]
n
(obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
n
A person or thing that is squashed.
v
(dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
n
(figuratively) An instance of 'squeezing' someone: a use of pressure or force to achieve one's goal.
n
The act of pressing; compression.
adj
squeezing; causing compression
v
(informal) To squash, most often between one's fingers.
v
Obsolete form of squeeze. [(transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.]
n
An instance of squinking.
v
(transitive, informal) To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
n
One who, or that which, squishes.
v
(informal, transitive) To squash or squeeze.
v
(intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
n
A squashing or squelching sound.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
v
(intransitive) To rankle in one's heart.
adj
(UK, dialect) close; sultry
v
(transitive) To beat livid, or black and blue.
n
One who, or that which, wrinkles.
v
Alternative form of zhoosh [(transitive, originally Polari, UK and Australia, slang) To tweak, finesse or improve (something); to make more appealing or exciting. Usually with up.]
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