SQUEEZE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squeeze out mean? 

• SQUEEZE OUT (verb)
  The verb SQUEEZE OUT has 6 senses:

1. force out

2. make by laborious and precarious means

3. extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing

4. obtain with difficulty

5. form or shape by forcing through an opening

6. cause to come out in a squirt

  Familiarity information: SQUEEZE OUT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUEEZE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Force out

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make by laborious and precarious means

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

eke out; squeeze out

Context example:

He eked out a living as a painter

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 3

Meaning:

Extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

squeeze out; wring out

Context example:

wring out the washcloth

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 4

Meaning:

Obtain with difficulty

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

eke out; squeeze out

Context example:

He eked out some information from the archives

Hypernyms (to "squeeze out" is one way to...):

obtain (come into possession of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Form or shape by forcing through an opening

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

extrude; squeeze out

Context example:

extrude steel

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 6

Meaning:

Cause to come out in a squirt

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

eject; force out; squeeze out; squirt

Context example:

the boy squirted water at his little sister

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

 Context examples 

Everybody was shortly in motion for tea, and they must squeeze out like the rest.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)