SQUISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squish mean? 

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

1. the noise of soft mud being walked on

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

• SQUISH (verb)
  The verb SQUISH has 2 senses:

1. walk through mud or mire

2. put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action

  Familiarity information: SQUISH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The noise of soft mud being walked on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

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

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

• SQUISH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk through mud or mire

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

slop; slosh; splash; splosh; squelch; squish

Context example:

We had to splosh across the wet meadow

Hypernyms (to "squish" is one way to...):

footslog; pad; plod; slog; tramp; trudge (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "squish" is one way to...):

squirt (wet with a spurt of liquid)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

The women squish water into the bowl