Squashed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Squash \Squash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squashed} (skw[o^]sht); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Squashing}.] [OE. squachen, OF. escachier,
     esquachier, to squash, to crush, F. ['e]cacher, perhaps from
     (assumed) LL. excoacticare, fr. L. ex + coactare to
     constrain, from cogere, coactum, to compel. Cf. {Cogent},
     {Squat}, v. i.]


     To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  squashed
       adj : that has been violently compressed; "the squashed looking
             nakedness of the fledgling birds"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "squashed":
     crushed, even, flat, flattened, flush, homaloidal, horizontal,
     level, plain, plane, quashed, quelled, repressed, rolled, smashed,
     smooth, smoothed out, smoothened, smothered, squashed flat,
     squelched, stifled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, tabloid,
     tabular, trodden, trodden flat