squeeze out

verb

squeezed out; squeezing out; squeezes out

transitive verb

: 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

As winds are forced up to 13,000 feet along the steep slopes of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, rapidly condensing air will squeeze out extra precipitation thanks to orographic lift. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Using tongs, transfer kale to a colander and rinse under cold running water, tossing; squeeze out excess liquid from leaves. — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Brayan Rocchio hears the chants, a ballpark full of fans repeating his last name before a last-ditch effort to squeeze out a home win. — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

If the temperature is too high, this process happens too quickly, squeezing out moisture before the salmon cooks through. — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2026

The frontier of cloud cost optimization was never really about finding more savings to squeeze out; those have been visible on our dashboards for years. — Devendra Rajput, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

When researchers first began tinkering with large-scale additive manufacturing, printers squeezed out material at a sluggish 20 pounds per hour. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026

Users who stacked up more metal discs to make more powerful piles found the weight of the discs squeezed out the moisture in the paper or cloth. — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2026

Be sure to squeeze out as much air as possible from the container or zip-top bag before freezing the fresh pumpkin puree. — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Aug. 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.