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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Squash  \Squash\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Squashed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Squashing}.]  [OE.  squashen,  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  squashed 
  adj  :  that  has  been  violently  compressed;  "the  squashed  looking 
  nakedness  of  the  fledgling  birds" 




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