SQUEEZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squeezing mean? 

• SQUEEZING (noun)
  The noun SQUEEZING has 1 sense:

1. the act of gripping and pressing firmly

  Familiarity information: SQUEEZING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUEEZING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of gripping and pressing firmly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

squeeze; squeezing

Context example:

he gave her cheek a playful squeeze

Hypernyms ("squeezing" is a kind of...):

compressing; compression (applying pressure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "squeezing"):

pinch; tweak (a squeeze with the fingers)

expression (the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing)

expulsion; extrusion (squeezing out by applying pressure)

Derivation:

squeeze (press firmly)

 Context examples 

The liquid produced by squeezing or crushing fruit.

(Fruit Juice, NCI Thesaurus)

The liquid produced by squeezing or crushing a fruit or vegetable.

(Juice, NCI Thesaurus)

“No, Mr. Traddles,” replied Uriah, resuming his official seat, and squeezing his bony hands, laid palm to palm between his bony knees.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Angina may feel like pressure or a squeezing pain in your chest.

(Angina, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Those symptoms include: • Chest discomfort - pressure, squeezing, or pain • Shortness of breath • Discomfort in the upper body - arms, shoulder, neck, back • Nausea, vomiting, dizziness, lightheadedness, sweating

(Heart Attack, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

A sense of discomfort or distress that is squeezing or excessively compressing.

(Crushing Pain, NCI Thesaurus)

Syndrome dominated by involuntary, sustained or spasmodic, patterned, and repetitive muscle contractions; frequently causing twisting, flexing or extending, and squeezing movements or abnormal postures.

(Dystonia, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Her majesty had taken a marrow-bone upon her plate, and, after knocking out the marrow, placed the bone again in the dish erect, as it stood before; the dwarf, watching his opportunity, while Glumdalclitch was gone to the side-board, mounted the stool that she stood on to take care of me at meals, took me up in both hands, and squeezing my legs together, wedged them into the marrow bone above my waist, where I stuck for some time, and made a very ridiculous figure.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His face flushed, his jaw set, and unconsciously his hand clenched, unclenched, and clenched again as if he were taking fresh grips upon some hateful thing out of which he was squeezing the life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A pressing or squeezing together.

(Compression, NCI Dictionary)