squeeze
To apply pressure (to something) from two or more sides at once.
Verb 4 meanings
To apply pressure (to something) from two or more sides at once.
“I squeezed the ball between my hands.”
To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
To fit into a tight place.
“I managed to squeeze the car into that parking space.”
To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
“He squeezed some money out of his wallet.”
Noun 4 meanings
An instance of squeezing.
“to give something a squeeze”
A close or tight fit.
A difficult position.
“I'm in a tight squeeze right now when it comes to my free time.”
A hug or other affectionate grasp.
“a gentle squeeze on the arm”
Etymology
From earlier squize, squise (whence also dialectal English squizzen and squeege), first attested around 1600, further origin uncertain; probably an alteration of quease (which is attested since 1550), from Middle English queisen (“to squeeze”), from Old English cwȳsan (“to crush, squeeze”), itself also of unknown origin, perhaps imitative (compare Swedish qväsa, kväsa (“to squeeze, bruise, crush; quell”), Dutch kwetsen (“to injure, hurt”), German quetschen (“to squeeze”)).
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SQUEEZE at a glance
SQUEEZE has 7 letters and scores 25 points in Scrabble (S 1 + Q 10 + U 1 + E 1 + E 1 + Z 10 + E 1) and 26 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,731 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with squeeze
All rhymes- FREEZE18
- BREEZE17
- SNEEZE15
- FRIEZE18
- TRAPEZE18
- ANTIFREEZE22
- WHEEZE21
- UNFREEZE20
- JEEZE21
- REFREEZE20
- MEZE15
- TWEEZE18
One letter away
- SQUEEZY28
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