Definition of Squashed

1. Adjective. That has been violently compressed. "The squashed looking nakedness of the fledgling birds"

Participles: Squash

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

squash
squash ball
squash bug
squash court
squash courts
squash pie
squash player
squash players
squash racket
squash rackets
squash racquet
squash racquets
squash vine
squashable
squashed (current term)
squasher
squashers
squashes
squashier
squashiest
squashily
squashiness
squashinesses
squashing
squashingly
squashings
squashlike
squashy
squat

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. ..."

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