SQUASHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squashed mean? 

• SQUASHED (adjective)
  The adjective SQUASHED has 1 sense:

1. that has been violently compressed

  Familiarity information: SQUASHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUASHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That has been violently compressed

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

the squashed looking nakedness of the fledgling birds

Participle:

squash (to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition)

 Context examples 

It is much more extended in one direction than in the other and so looks squashed on one side even after accounting for its inclined projection on the sky.

(Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A, NASA)

For their study, the Cambridge researchers squashed layers of FePS3 together under high pressure (about 10 Gigapascals), they found that it switched between an insulator and conductor, a phenomenon known as a Mott transition.

(‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor, University of Cambridge)

Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these reflections, when one of the reapers, approaching within ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his reaping-hook.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)