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Squeezing

noun

1.

The act of gripping and pressing firmly. Synonym: squeeze.

Squeeze

verb

(past & past part. squeezed; pres. part. squeezing)

1.

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition. Synonyms: crush, mash, squash, squelch. "Squeeze a lemon"

2.

Press firmly.

3.

Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space. Synonyms: force, wedge.

4.

To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :. Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, pressure. "He squeezed her for information"

5.

Obtain by coercion or intimidation. Synonyms: extort, gouge, rack, wring. "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

6.

Press or force. Synonyms: shove, stuff, thrust. "She thrust the letter into his hand"

7.

Squeeze tightly between the fingers. Synonyms: nip, pinch, tweet, twinge, twitch. "She squeezed the bottle"

8.

Squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness. Synonyms: bosom, embrace, hug. "They embraced" , "He hugged her close to him"

9.

Squeeze or press together. Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, contract, press. "The spasm contracted the muscle"

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"Squeezing" Quotes from Famous Books

... off to the cotton-press to see the last bales pressed. As often as we had watched that revolving screw and the two mules going slowly round squeezing the huge bale—it was rather a primitive press this, made by the carpenter on the place—we had never looked with an interest to compare with that which we now felt. It was our own property being squeezed into shape; and we actually ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various

... Rob Roy into the proper place in the lock, and then to keep her there. The men were not clumsy nor careless, but still the polished mahogany yawl had no chance with the heavy floats and barges in a squeezing and scratching match, and it was always sure ...

— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor

... don't block up the pores of your skin with paint. Let out your corsets. You are thirty-three round the abdomen if you are an inch: how can you expect your digestion to do its work when you're squeezing it into twenty-one? Give up gadding about half your day and most of your night; you are old enough to have done with that sort of thing. Let the children come, and suckle them yourself. You'll be all the better for them. Don't loll in bed all the morning. Get up like a decent animal ...

— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

... on his left wrist chaining him to the oar. He's on the lower deck where the worst men are sent, and the only light comes from the hatchways and through the oar-holes. Can't you imagine the sunlight just squeezing through between the handle and the hole and wobbling about ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... must pay all the duty-fowl, and duty-geese, and turkeys, [Footnote: See a very curious anecdote in the Statistical Survey of the Queen's County.] charged in the lease, or compound with him by paying two guineas a year. This gentleman had many methods of squeezing money out of poor tenants; and he was not inclined to spare the Grays, whose farm he now more than ever wished to possess, because its value had been considerably increased, by the judicious industry of the ...

— Tales & Novels, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

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