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Definition of Squashed
1. Adjective. That has been violently compressed. "The squashed looking nakedness of the fledgling birds"
Definition of Squashed
1. Adjective. squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp ¹
2. Adjective. suppressed or silenced ¹
3. Verb. (past of squash) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Squashed
1. squash [v] - See also: squash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squashed
Literary usage of Squashed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1879)
"10 « 12 с Killed by being squashed by some Bock Falling on them, 3 « 6 d Three
Men, Drowned while Bathing, 15 f 6/ —- Archibald Morrison and others, ..."
2. In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country: A Record of Travel and Discovery in by Albert Bushnell Lloyd (1900)
"... Hospitality in Central Africa—The " Mission boy " again -Practical Christianity—We
split our caravan—The porters rebel—How we squashed the rebels—Peace ..."
3. Reminiscences of My Life by Charles Santley (1909)
"FANNY KEMBLE comes on the Stage—My Nerves Agitated— " Spikes "—Taking " the Bull
by the Horns "—Tele H tetes— A Nervous Lady squashed—A Promise ..."
4. The Midland Naturalist: Journal of the Midland Union of Natural History edited by Edward W. Badger, William Jerome Harrison, William Hillhouse (1878)
"... of their structures, the conditions of the " squashed " mounting almost
invariably prevent anything like naturalness in the appearance of the object. ..."