SQUEEZED Synonyms: 172 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in pressed

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verb

past tense of squeeze

as in crushed

to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents of kept squeezing the bottle until the ketchup squirted all over the table

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as in crammed

to fit (people or things) into a tight space I think we can squeeze a bit more into the washing machine

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as in earned

to get with great difficulty managed to squeeze a living by cleaning houses

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as in compressed

to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together squeezed the blanket until it fit into the box

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as in plucked

to rob by the use of trickery or threats the mob squeezes all the local merchants by threatening violence

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as in pushed

to force one's way I was able to squeeze through the people clustered around the luggage carousel

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Recent Examples of squeezed

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Freddie Freeman squeezed one inside the left-field foul pole in the first inning, his fourth home run in nine games (after hitting just one in the previous 35 games). —

Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 30 May 2026 The story of America’s lopsided home prices has often been pinned on the wealthy remote workers who squeezed home supply in the pandemic’s early days. —

Tristan Bove, Fortune, 29 May 2026 Many barely have enough money for their bills and feel squeezed by rising costs. —

Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 28 May 2026 The Philadelphia Phillies slugger squeezed toothpaste straight from the tube into his mouth, rather than applying it first onto his toothbrush. —

CBS News, 28 May 2026 Stack several pings, messages and quick email checks across a workday and sustained cognitive work gets squeezed into the margins. —

Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026 And the indie producer who doesn’t have their own operating system gets squeezed at every phase. —

Daren Smith, IndieWire, 27 May 2026 Apply rooting hormone if desired, then wrap the area tightly with damp sphagnum moss that has been soaked for several hours and squeezed to remove any extra moisture. —

Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 May 2026 Aronimink put the world’s best golfers in a vice this week and squeezed the whines right out of them. —

Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 May 2026

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While many automakers go out of their way to make their hybrid offerings more visually distinctive, passers-by would be hard-pressed to tell whether the Carnival is a gasoline or a gasoline-electric model.

— Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
New York will be hard-pressed to continue scoring at that level in the championship.

— James L. Edwards III, New York Times, 27 May 2026