squeeze out

verb

squeezed out; squeezing out; squeezes out

: to force out of a position, place, etc.

a small local restaurant squeezed out by a fast-food chain

Examples of squeeze out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Keep lids tight, squeeze out air from flexible containers, and always use a clean utensil—never your fingers. —Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 21 Feb. 2026

Or the viral clip of him from 2023, wearing jeans and boots and nothing else, squeezing out a final set on Venice Beach. —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026

The reason for the low snow chances is that the weather system will struggle to squeeze out much moisture from an already dry air mass. —Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026

Macron isn’t being entirely squeezed out. —Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for squeeze out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout

Legal Definition

squeezeout

noun

squeeze·​out

ˈskwēz-ˌau̇t

: a corporate action or series of actions (as a refusal to declare dividends or the restricting of decision-making power in corporate governance) through which majority shareholders deprive minority shareholders of the benefit of stock ownership usually as part of an attempt to force sale of minority shares compare freezeout

Note: Freezeout and squeezeout are sometimes used as synonyms.