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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Squash \Squash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squashing}.] [OE. squashen, OF. escachier, esquachier, to squash, to crush, F. [82]cacher, perhaps from (assumed) LL. excoacticare, fr. L. ex + coactare to constrain, from cogere, coactum, to compel. Cf. {Cogent}, {Squat}, v. i.] To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. | |
