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squish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun squish has 1 sense
Verb squish has 2 senses
- squish(v = verb.motion) slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch - walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow" is one way to footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge
- squish(v = verb.contact) Array - put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action; Array is one way to squirt
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sample sentence:
The women squish water into the bowl
CIDE DICTIONARY
squish, v. i. [Perh. imitative. Cf. Squelch.].
To make the sound of squirting water, like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush; to make a kind of gushing, swashing, or splashing sound; to move with such a sound. [PJC]
squish, n.
A sound like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush; a gushing, swashing, or splashing sound; a squishing sound. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
squish, n. & v.
--n. a slight squelching sound.
--v.
1 intr. move with a squish.
2 tr. colloq. squash, squeeze.
--n. a slight squelching sound.
--v.
1 intr. move with a squish.
2 tr. colloq. squash, squeeze.
Derivative
squishy adj. (squishier, squishiest).
Etymology
imit.
THESAURUS
squish
assibilate, assibilation, atomize, bear, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, buzz, crash, crowd, crunch, crush, cut to pieces, demolish, diffuse, disperse, disrupt, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, fission, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, fragment, frication, frictional rustling, grind, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, jam, lisp, make mincemeat of, mince, pulverize, push, rhonchus, scatter, shatter, shiver, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, smash, smash up, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splinter, splutter, sputter, squab, squash, squeeze, squelch, sternutation, stertor, swish, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zip
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