squeeze out

phrasal verb

squeezed out; squeezing out; squeezes out

: to force (someone or something) out of a position, place, etc.

Big stores have squeezed out a lot of the smaller locally owned shops.

Examples of squeeze out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Just dump out the water, dump out the dry debris compartment, rinse out the pieces, squeeze out the brush roll, and let everything dry. —Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 9 Aug. 2025

This week, much tension is squeezed out of speculation about this upcoming tip — between dealing with Kelly and Stillie’s attention to the primary’s breasts, expectations are running high. —Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025

But as their rotation gets healthier, some names are going to get squeezed out — including, potentially, May, who has not missed a turn through the Dodgers rotation and has remained healthy. —The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 25 July 2025

This leads to a larger Poisson’s ratio, indicating actual volume loss, or that fluid has been squeezed out of the skin matrix, the scaffolding in the dermis that includes collagen fibers. —New Atlas, 24 July 2025

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.