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Squish

/skwɪʃ/

The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.

📖 Definitions of "Squish"

noun

1
The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
2
A political moderate.
3
Marmalade.

verb

1
To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
"The sandwich tasted fine, even though it got squished in his lunchbox."
2
To be compressed or squeezed.

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
squelchverb	(intransitive, British) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
sloshverb	(intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
splashnoun	(onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
slopnoun	(South Africa, chiefly in the plural) A flip-flop.
sploshnoun	To splash with a heavy splashing sound.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
splashnoun	(onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
sploshnoun	To splash with a heavy splashing sound.
sloshverb	(intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
squelchverb	(intransitive, British) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
slopnoun	(South Africa, chiefly in the plural) A flip-flop.
mashnoun	(uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
crushverb	A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
crashnoun	A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
smashverb	(colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
pummelverb	To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.
stompverb	(ambitransitive) To trample heavily.
trampleverb	(transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
overwhelmverb	To overpower emotionally.
squashnoun	(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
squushnoun	A squashing or squishing sound.
squishy	(literally, of a physical material) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.
squidgenoun	(informal) A tight space; squeeze.
squeeze playnoun	(figurative) An instance of 'squeezing' someone: a use of pressure or force to achieve one's goal.
squasheenoun	A person or thing that is squashed.
squitnoun	(derogatory, informal, countable) A person of low status.