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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
squashed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a squashed soda can
▪ He held out a squashed packet of cigarettes and offered me one.
▪ We can't give her those chocolates - they're all squashed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gentle and intelligent pedestrians began to get squashed.
▪ In the back pocket of his jeans he could feel the rather squashed packet of cigarettes.
▪ It is a handbook of squashed wildlife.
▪ MacLane was still on the running board, his arm wedged into the squashed wreck of the car.
▪ Neither shows it, but the squashed chairs and the scored benches tell the story.
▪ The ground crew can now work to refuel, clean the squashed bugs off the bubble and put the aircraft to bed.
▪ The stain looked like a squashed tropical insect.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squashed

Squash \Squash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Squashed (skw[o^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Squashing.] [OE. squachen, OF. escachier, esquachier, to squash, to crush, F. ['e]cacher, perhaps from (assumed) LL. excoacticare, fr. L. ex + coactare to constrain, from cogere, coactum, to compel. Cf. Cogent, Squat, v. i.] To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

Wiktionary
squashed

  1. 1 squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp 2 suppressed or silenced v

  2. (en-past of: squash)

WordNet
squashed

adj. that has been violently compressed; "the squashed looking nakedness of the fledgling birds"

Usage examples of "squashed".

Bouldershoulder spent a moment considering the squashed object between his club and the great beech, honestly wondering how it once might have resembled a living goblin.

He slammed a heavy boot atop his squashed victim, pounding a hand triumphantly against his barrellike chest.

It came to the clearing, noticed its squashed companion, and considered the titanic struggle.

Blokes would be there straight from the shower, squashed up next to blokes in shit state straight from the field.

She did not like to handle them, squashing the spiders the way Bloom squashed them she usually opted for drowning.

Herbie slapped bis cheek, squashed an insect that was punching a hole in his ear, then brushed three more off his arm.

Joe suddenly squashed his beer can and chucked it into the pile in the corner.

They will sometimes shelter in clothing left on the floor and they take an exception to being squashed when the clothing is put on in the morning.

You might say that you are already squashed, that you are used to being squashed.

I saw one boatman get squashed flat when a two-ton rock came down on him, and where was justice then?

The Ancestress ran around in circles and squashed everything in front of her, and Henpecked Ho swung his axe and whacked everything in sight, and Li Kao slipped through the carnage slitting throats, and I flailed away with my sword.

Most oceans are of course much shallower, but even at the average ocean depth of two and a half miles the pressure is equivalent to being squashed beneath a stack of fourteen loaded cement trucks.

McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, and seven miles down in the Pacific Ocean where pressures are more than a thousand times greater than at the surface, or equivalent to being squashed beneath fifty jumbo jets.

Nightbird winced as he saw one man chopped down by a powrie hammer, then another squashed by a giant club.