as in squeeze
the act or process of reducing the size or volume of something by or as if by pressing
the tight squeezing of his hands on hers made her face turn red
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1
as in crushing
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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2
as in cramming
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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3
as in earning
to get with great difficulty
managed to squeeze a living by cleaning houses
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as in compressing
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 plucking
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
the mob squeezes all the local merchants by threatening violence
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Recent Examples of squeezing
Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
All the while, overall streaming growth has slowed in recent years, squeezing artists’ margins even further.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
Bark recommends breaking in the shoes by squeezing them before attempting to put them on your dog's paws.
—Ayrika L Whitney, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
At the same time, your bladder muscle naturally fires, squeezing urine down and out through that channel.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 Oct. 2025
There are some scenarios in which a twisting, squeezing or pressing motion would come more naturally than a clicking motion.
—New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
The Low-Rise Trouser At a certain point, squeezing your body and belly into high-rise trousers becomes impossible.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2025
That creates a gap between what the market thinks AI can do and actual performance, squeezing both businesses and—in the case of translators—workers caught between the promise of superhuman efficiency and the reality of often flawed machine output.
—Harry Booth, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
But, to do you any good, squeezing the veins must propel the blood in the right direction, toward the heart.
—Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
Hassan’s team instead squeezed a photon’s intensity and demonstrated real-time control, fluctuating between intensity and phase-squeezing by adjusting the silica’s position relative to the beams.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
Record high inflation and a weak yen are also squeezing households and driving up living costs.
—Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
All the while, overall streaming growth has slowed in recent years, squeezing artists’ margins even further.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
Bark recommends breaking in the shoes by squeezing them before attempting to put them on your dog's paws.
—Ayrika L Whitney, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
At the same time, your bladder muscle naturally fires, squeezing urine down and out through that channel.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 Oct. 2025
There are some scenarios in which a twisting, squeezing or pressing motion would come more naturally than a clicking motion.
—New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
The Low-Rise Trouser At a certain point, squeezing your body and belly into high-rise trousers becomes impossible.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2025
That creates a gap between what the market thinks AI can do and actual performance, squeezing both businesses and—in the case of translators—workers caught between the promise of superhuman efficiency and the reality of often flawed machine output.
—Harry Booth, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
But, to do you any good, squeezing the veins must propel the blood in the right direction, toward the heart.
—Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squeezing
Noun
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In addition to tilt and pressure sensitivity, the Apple Pencil Pro adds squeeze and delete functions to the palette, along with a new barrel roll gesture and haptic vibrational feedback.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 Oct. 2025
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If prices rise, a rush to close short positions can lead to a short squeeze where traders pile back into the asset, pushing prices higher.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
8 Oct. 2025
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And in early September, the company was forced to halt work on a tunnel to Vegas' Harry Reid International Airport due to a crushing injury, according to Fortune.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 Oct. 2025
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There is only the sense of crushing defeat, the stillness of a clubhouse that just a month ago hosted a raucous party after clinching the NL East, the questions of roster building to come.—
Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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So cramming those two tones together is a hard thing to do.—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Government funding has been appropriated this way for the past nine fiscal years, with Congress cramming 108 spending measures into 13 bills.—
Lazaro Gamio,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Gehman, then a graduate student earning a doctorate in disease ecology, had heard about a mysterious illness sweeping through the Pacific coast’s iconic invertebrates.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
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The role players swung the Pacers’ season — and thus, even with Tyrese Haliburton earning All-NBA accolades, the role players determined the conference.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Multiverse’s core business is compressing open-source LLMs with such extreme shrinkage that most of its versions can run on CPUs, or central processing units, of the kind used in smartphones and regular computers, rather than GPUs, or graphics processing units.—
Vivienne Walt,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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This set is crafted out of a durable ripstop nylon material that’s squishy and flexible and works great at compressing even bulkier clothing like sweaters and jeans.—
Asia London Palomba,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Oct. 2025
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Helicopters have been plucking people off rooftops for rescue from flooding and structural damage.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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With the Giants plucking concepts from Ole Miss’ offense, Dart’s comfort level was obvious.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Rice arrived in the summer of 2023 as a multifaceted midfielder who spent most of his first six months at Arsenal playing as a No 6, before pushing up into a more box-to-box role in the second half of 2023-24.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and the richest person on the planet, has single-handedly been one of most influential leaders in pushing for 21st-century space accessibility.—
Jason Del Rey,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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Blakely patented that first product and many others that followed, but not everything is compression driven.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
16 Oct. 2025
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The firm cited solid operating trends and valuation compression so far this year for the call.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Squeezing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squeezing. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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