squashed

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squashed (comparative more squashed, superlative most squashed)

1. squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp
   • Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

     Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking-sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair.

2. suppressed or silenced

squashed

1. simple past tense and past participle of squash
   • 2001, Jon Brasher, The Color of Moonlight (page 37)

     He dropped his cigarette on the sidewalk, shaking his head as he squashed the butt out with the heel of his shoe.