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adjective

as in pressed

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verb

past tense of squeeze
1
as in crushed
to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents of kept squeezing the bottle until the ketchup squirted all over the table

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2
as in crammed
to fit (people or things) into a tight space I think we can squeeze a bit more into the washing machine

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3
as in earned
to get with great difficulty managed to squeeze a living by cleaning houses

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4
as in compressed
to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together squeezed the blanket until it fit into the box

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5
as in plucked
to rob by the use of trickery or threats the mob squeezes all the local merchants by threatening violence

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as in pushed
to force one's way I was able to squeeze through the people clustered around the luggage carousel

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Recent Examples of squeezed
Verb
In Malabo, Bioko’s biggest city, a team of men and women equipped with insecticide sprayers squeezed between low-rise cement buildings on a recent morning, as heavy rain drummed on aluminum roofs. — ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026 Elevated borrowing rates and refinancing challenges (registration required) have squeezed an already difficult landscape for development financing. — Jill Jones, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 The carbon molecules then distort the star’s light so much that almost all of it is squeezed into wavelengths beyond 600 nanometres. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026 Iowa is facing a budget deficit, high costs and economic strain from trade disputes that have squeezed farmers. — CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Pick it up, however, and there's no mistaking how much battery Bluetti has squeezed inside. — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026 Give members of the business and culture press the excuse to write about the rough economics of linear TV and how late night is particularly squeezed. — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026 Like many millennials, he’s squeezed tight between caring for aging parents and raising a child. — Deputy Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 And gas prices — one of the items where consumers are getting squeezed the most — are expected to remain elevated through Election Day. — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squeezed
  1. pressed
  2. crushed
  3. crammed
  4. earned
  5. compressed
  6. plucked
  7. pushed
  8. massed
Adjective
  • The Orange could be hard pressed to win another game this season.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Lys Beauty has launched its Triple Fix pressed powder in Sincere, a new pink shade of which 100 percent of net proceeds during the month of October will be donated to The Pink Agenda, which supports breast cancer research and care.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of pressed
Verb
  • At a Franprix on Rue Beaurepaire near Place de la République, shelves were emptied and products were either stolen or crushed on the floor.
    — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • When the stars of some of his early shorts reacted unfavorably, he was crushed.
    — Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of crushed
Verb
  • Yet Abrams still won’t kvetch about being crammed into a tiny whale-stomach set with a camera crew, while a half-dozen crew members surrounding the practical gut, wielding a gimbal, tossed him around like a wet rag doll.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In 2013, Rana Plaza, a nine-story building crammed with garment factories outside the capital Dhaka, collapsed killing 1,100 people.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of crammed
Verb
  • Lawmakers were surprised to learn that nearly 1,700 state employees in all departments were paid more than $50,000 in overtime alone, while nearly 2,600 employees earned more than $40,000 in overtime in addition to their salaries.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Their primary race is still regarded as a historic political earthquake, but, in the final tally, Ocasio-Cortez earned fewer than seventeen thousand votes.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of earned
Verb
  • How the whiplash is different now Now, the time frame is being compressed.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Full resolution can use a lot more storage There is a reason photo-sharing services have compressed images for years.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of compressed
Verb
  • During fall, a train window serves as the perfect perch for leaf-peeping in river valleys aglow in crimson and gold or passing through small towns that look like they’ve been plucked from a Hallmark movie.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Midwest Living, 15 Oct. 2026
  • As the party winded down, guests plucked final bites off silver platters and marveled at how tall Skarsgård truly is in person—his nearly six-foot-five frame barely fit under the bar’s low ceilings.
    — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of plucked
Verb
  • Already, two bipartisan groups of senators have pushed back on the decision, including seven Republicans.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Lebanese officials have pushed for a last-minute extension of UNIFIL's mandate, so far without success.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of pushed
Adjective
  • China’s military has unveiled a combat drone converted from a Soviet–era fighter jet, a development that could enable massed drone attacks in any future conflict over Taiwan.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Definition of massed

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“Squeezed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squeezed. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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