squish

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).

   The sandwich tasted fine, even though it had got squished in his lunchbox.

2. verb To be compressed or squeezed.
3. verb To make the sound of something being squeezed or crushed.
4. verb To proceed or make one’s way (somewhere) with the sound of something being squeezed or crushed.
5. noun The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
6. noun A political moderate; a moderate on a specific issue.

   The cadre of squishes in this party may disgree with me.

7. noun An effect in internal combustion engines which creates sudden turbulence of the air–fuel mixture as the piston approaches top dead center.
8. noun A continuum or progression between categories that are normally considered discrete.

Similar words

splash splosh slosh squelch slop mash crush crash smash pummel

Often followed by

of the it and them in area flow region

Word family

squished squishes squishing