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squeezeverb to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents ofkept squeezing the bottle until the ketchup squirted all over the table to fit (people or things) into a tight spaceI think we can squeeze a bit more into the washing machine cram, crowd, crush, jam, ram, sandwich, shoehorn, stuff, wedge fill, heap, jam-pack, load, pack to get with great difficultymanaged to squeeze a living by cleaning houses eke (out), scrape (up or together), scrounge, wrest, wring acquire, attain, draw, earn, gain, land, obtain, procure, secure to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members togethersqueezed the blanket until it fit into the box capsule, capsulize, collapse, compact, compress, condense, constrict, constringe, contract, narrow (down), telescope cram, crowd, jam, jam-pack, packabbreviate, abridge, curtail, shortenboil down, downsize, shrinkconcentrate, consolidatesimplify, streamlinedecrease, diminish, lessen decompress, expand, open, outspread, outstretch dilate, disperse, dissipate, scatterdistend, inflate, swell to rob by the use of trickery or threatsthe mob squeezes all the local merchants by threatening violence beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose(slang), hustle, mulct, nobble(British slang), pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize extort, wrench, wrest, wringclip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soakexploit, milkdeceive, dupe, fool, gull, trickrope (in)betray, bitch, double-crossbamboozle, fast-talk sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners to force one's wayI was able to squeeze through the people clustered around the luggage carousel bore, bull, bulldoze, crash, elbow, jam, jostle, muscle, press, push, shoulder ram, shove, thrust squeezenounthe act or process of reducing the size or volume of something by or as if by pressinghe gave the plastic bag a squeeze and then folded it up for storage compacting, compaction, compression, condensation, condensing, constricting, constriction, contracting, contraction, squeezing, telescoping abbreviation, abridgment(or abridgement), curtailment, shorteningconcentration, consolidationsimplification, streamliningdecreasing, diminishment, lessening decompression, expansion dilation, dispersion, dissipation, scatteringdistension(or distention), inflation, swelling slanga person with whom one is in loveshe and her main squeeze are spending Valentine's Day at a romantic country inn beloved, darling, dear, flame, hon, honey, love, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetie pie, truelove beau, boy, boyfriend, fellow, man, swaingal, girl, girlfriend, inamorata, ladylove, lass, mistress, tootsieamour, lover, paramourdoll, duck(s)(chiefly British), petdate, escort, steadyadmirer, gallant, suitor, wooergroom, husbandbride, wifesignificant otherfiancé, intendedcrush, heartthrob ca. 1601 |