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Mashing
To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
📖 Definitions of "Mashing"
- 1
To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
"The potatoes need to be mashed."
- 2
In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
- 3
To press down hard (on).
"to mash on a bicycle pedal"
- 4
To press.
- 1
To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances
- 1
The process by which something is mashed or beaten to pulp.
- 2
The action of soaking malted barley etc., in order to convert starch into sugars as part of the brewing process.
- 3
The process of preparing tea in a teapot.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Mashing"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| crunchverb | To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound. |
| squeezeverb | (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once. |
| grindverb | (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. |
| crushverb | A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. |
| flirtverb | (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. |
| comminuteverb | (transitive) To pulverize; to smash. |
| squelchverb | (intransitive, British) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground. |
| brayverb | (intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry. |
| dallyverb | To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle. |
| chat upverb | (transitive, idiomatic) To talk to (someone) in a friendly, open, or casual manner, sometimes also in a charming or affected manner, usually to curry favor, and sometimes flirtatiously with the intention of establishing a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship with that person. |
| coquetverb | To act as a flirt or coquet. |
| coquetteverb | Alternative form of coquet. [To act as a flirt or coquet.] |
| philanderverb | (intransitive) To woo women; to play the male flirt. |
| romanceverb | (transitive) To woo; to court. |
| squashverb | (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. |
| swattingnoun | (US, slang) The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location. |
| bruisingnoun | That bruises. |
| crushingnoun | The action of the verb to crush. |
| smushnoun | An act of crushing or squeezing. |
| malleationnoun | The act or process of malleating (beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal) |
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