SQUEEZES Synonyms: 193 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of squeeze

as in crushes

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 crams

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 earns

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

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as in compresses

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 plucks

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 pushes

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

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squeezes

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noun

plural of squeeze

as in darlings

slang a person with whom one is in love she and her main squeeze are spending Valentine's Day at a romantic country inn

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Recent Examples of squeezes

Verb

But the strain extends across the Global South, where developing nations struggle with a prolonged energy crisis that disproportionately squeezes the planet’s most deprived. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 20 Oct. 2026 Meta squeezes two independent light-guiding cores into a single standard glass strand to double its bandwidth. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026 Long before the lucky pregame butt squeezes or the messages written on the back of Haley Cavinder's pants or even taking the heat for Jake Ferguson's bad game, there was the classic shooter taking his shot. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 But as the Iran war squeezes Republicans ahead of the midterms, Democrats are aligning to call for the defense secretary’s ouster or resignation. — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026 That wrestling match itself, however, makes for compelling theater about as often as the camel squeezes through the needle. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026 The jobs market has been resilient even as stubbornly high inflation squeezes businesses and households. — Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 Glen Arbor to Traverse City On the Leelanau Peninsula, M-22 squeezes onto a narrow isthmus between Lake Michigan and Lake Leelanau, landing in the resort community of Leland. — Mike Norton, Midwest Living, 26 Sep. 2026 That means if a trade war squeezes household spending, disrupts supply chains or generates ill will among local constituencies, there’s a chance the NHL (and at least 10 clubs) feels the pinch. — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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Despite a growing pool of paying members, insurers face severe profit squeezes and operational strains that are reshaping how care is delivered in the Sunshine State. — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026 Prices keep climbing Supply squeezes have led to soaring prices worldwide. — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026 And yet each leg up in the market heightens the risk of more Situational Awareness-like squeezes, and of individualized distress giving way to a broader bust. — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 Heightened demand causes volatility, which often leads to short squeezes. — David Capablanca, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 This summer, find citrus scents that range from bracingly tart yuzu to soft, floral squeezes of orange blossom and bergamot. — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 4 June 2026 With the apparel market forecast to grow 2-4 percent per year between 2023 and 2028—a steep falloff from the 7–14 percent seen during the post-Covid recovery—executives are homing in on more immediate budget squeezes. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 6 May 2026 That limits the ability for unexpected good news to trigger short squeezes that send the stock flying. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026 First, they are set up for serious short squeezes because the surrounding verbiage is so toxic. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for squeezes

Verb

That pulse crushes the fuel, driving its atoms to unite and release their own huge amount of energy, whose nature and effects scientists can study.

— Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Jason fires a 3-D harpoon into the eye of Vera Sanchez (Catherine Parks), and later crushes the skull of Rick Bombay (Paul Kratka), causing his eyes to pop out.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of crushes

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Then there’s the Tesseract, which takes the scooter formula and crams it with an almost unreasonable amount of technology.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
Neutron stars are considered so extreme because the process that creates them crams between one and two times the mass of the sun down into a sphere with a width of around 12 miles (20 kilometers).

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of crams

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When a server in the US earns less than $17 an hour on average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that typically doesn’t give them a lot of savings to pay for unexpected medical bills.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Conceding that earns you the credibility to defend the steps that matter.

— Brian Jenney, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of earns

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High-rises are expected to settle as their enormous weight compresses the ground beneath them, but that settlement is expected to stop soon after construction.

— Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Deal teams that prepare before a potential transaction (something my company has created a checklist for) can gain an advantage as technology compresses timelines.

— Rusty Wiley, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of compresses

Verb

Trump sometimes plucks memes from a sprawling ecosystem of online conservative supporters, and sometimes his government staff produces them as part of their official messaging.

— Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
His torso and thighs grow eye-poppingly muscular beneath their skimpy fur-and-leather togs—a development that does not go unnoticed by a warrior named Red Hair, who plucks the young hunk from his post and tosses him into the prime time of the gladiator pit.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Definition of plucks

Verb

The company reincorporated from Delaware to Texas in 2024, and its charter pushes shareholder claims into mandatory arbitration and limits derivative suits to investors holding at least 3% of the stock—a stake worth tens of billions of dollars.

— Heather Occhino, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
North Korea has been adding mines, barbed wire fences, anti-tank barriers and other fortifications to what’s already one of the world’s most heavily armed borders as Kim Jong Un pushes a hard line toward Seoul.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of pushes

Noun

The Gators went from the darlings of college football to deservedly unranked in just a few weeks after an embarrassing blowout loss at home to South Carolina.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Drastic Measures, Wild Child and their owner, Sanders, have become national darlings in the cocktail world over the last several years.

— Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of darlings

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The dispute unfolds as Russia intensifies attacks across Ukraine and as Kyiv presses Western allies for more interceptors, while new diplomatic efforts seek to end the war.

— Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
When the user presses their finger on the part of the patch that contains the wet fabric, the pressure squeezes the water out of the material, down one of the microfluidic channels, and into the foaming agent chamber.

— Ben Coxworth October 23, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026