squash

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /skwɒʃ/    美 /skwɔʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets. uncountable
    — She plays squash every Saturday.
  2. Muskrat. countable,obsolete
    — The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.
  3. A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.; Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins. countable,uncountable
  4. A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk. countable,uncountable
    — Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here.
  5. A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.; Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash. countable,uncountable
  6. A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.; Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash. countable,uncountable
  7. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move. countable,uncountable
    — It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
  8. A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure. countable,uncountable
  9. A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.; Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini. countable,uncountable
  10. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas. countable,obsolete
  11. Any other similar-looking plant of other genera. countable,uncountable
  12. Something unripe or soft. countable,derogatory,obsolete
  13. Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.; Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash. countable,uncountable
  14. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. countable,obsolete
  15. The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish. countable,uncountable
    — We ate squash and green beans.
  16. An extremely one-sided, usually short, match. countable,slang,uncountable
    — It was one of the most shocking WWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minute squash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent.
动词 v.
  1. To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. transitive
  2. To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze. intransitive,transitive
    — Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
  3. To suppress; to force into submission. transitive
    — A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.
感叹词 intj.
  1. The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water. obsolete
    — […] rain, too, had lately fallen, and had decidedly not evaporated, since, at every step, I went squash! squash! up to the tops of my boots, and many times very extent, stretching to the eastward, […]

词形变化

squashes plural squashes present,singular,third-person squashing participle,present squashed participle,past squashed past squash plural squashes plural squashes plural

词汇关系

近义词
press
下位词
pumpkin
衍生词
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相关词
quash racketball

词源

词源 1
From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
词源 2
Shortening of Narragansett askutasquash (“[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)”), from askut (“green, raw”) + asquash (“eaten”).
词源 3
Clipping of musquash.
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