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Definition of Squeeze out
1. Verb. Force out. "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts"
2. Verb. Make by laborious and precarious means. "He eked out a living as a painter"
Generic synonyms: Bring In, Clear, Earn, Gain, Make, Pull In, Realise, Realize, Take In
3. Verb. Extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing. "Wring out the washcloth"
Generic synonyms: Draw Out, Extract, Pull, Pull Out, Pull Up, Take Out
Entails: Compact, Compress, Constrict, Contract, Press, Squeeze
4. Verb. Obtain with difficulty. "He eked out some information from the archives"
5. Verb. Form or shape by forcing through an opening. "Extrude steel"
Generic synonyms: Create, Make, Produce
Derivative terms: Extrusion, Extrusive
6. Verb. Cause to come out in a squirt. "They squeeze out the bread with melted butter"; "The boy squirted water at his little sister"
Specialized synonyms: Spritz, Extravasate
Generic synonyms: Discharge
Derivative terms: Ejection, Squirt, Squirter
Definition of Squeeze out
1. Verb. (transitive) (&lit squeeze out) ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To force a competitor out of one of a limited number of winning positions by taking over that position or a higher one ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To obtain a difficult victory in a competition ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squeeze Out
Literary usage of Squeeze out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble (1864)
"If lean obtain his permission, and squeeze out the time, I will surely copy it
for you. The quiet, unassuming character of his usual manners and deportment ..."
2. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"Merger to squeeze out contingent remainder.—A contingent remainder will often
suffice to prevent a merger and keep estates apart where all estates are ..."
3. In the Amazon Jungle: Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River by Algot Lange, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1912)
"... them for two or three weeks, when they tear open the shell and squeeze out
the yolks, mixing them all up into a mush with the inevitable farinha. ..."
4. The Human Body: An Account of Its Structure and Activities and the by Henry Newell Martin (1881)
"the quantity which B is stretched enough to squeeze out in that time. Water will
in consequence accumulate in B until it becomes stretched enough to squeeze ..."
5. The Human Body: An Account of Its Structure and Activities and the by Henry Newell Martin (1881)
"the quantity which B is stretched enough to squeeze out in that time. Water will
in consequence accumulate in B until it becomes stretched enough to squeeze ..."
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