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SQUEEZE OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing
Example:
wring out the washcloth
Synonyms:
squeeze out; wring out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "squeeze out" is one way to...):
draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out (remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense)
"Squeeze out" entails doing...:
compact; compress; constrict; contract; press; squeeze (squeeze or press together)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cause to come out in a squirt
Example:
the boy squirted water at his little sister
Synonyms:
eject; force out; squeeze out; squirt
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "squeeze out" is one way to...):
discharge (pour forth or release)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "squeeze out"):
spritz (eject (a liquid) quickly)
extravasate (force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Form or shape by forcing through an opening
Example:
extrude steel
Synonyms:
extrude; squeeze out
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "squeeze out" is one way to...):
create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Obtain with difficulty
Example:
He eked out some information from the archives
Synonyms:
eke out; squeeze out
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "squeeze out" is one way to...):
obtain (come into possession of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Make by laborious and precarious means
Example:
He eked out a living as a painter
Synonyms:
eke out; squeeze out
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "squeeze out" is one way to...):
bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Force out
Example:
Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "squeeze out" is one way to...):
can; dismiss; displace; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away; terminate (terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
