mash

[ US /ˈmæʃ/ ]
[ UK /mˈæʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
    My husband never flirts with other women
    The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries
  2. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
    crush an aluminum can
    squeeze a lemon
  3. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
    grind the spices in a mortar
    mash the garlic
NOUN
  1. mixture of ground animal feeds
  2. a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing
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  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door.
  • He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.
  • Other specialties have undergone relative declines such as orthopedics safer cars and fewer smashed bones. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Another Idea
  • Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
  • And mashed banana with sugar and milk, and banana custard, banana milk shake and banana fritters. Times, Sunday Times
  • The handle on the German “potato-masher” hand grenade enabled it to be thrown far further than its British or American counterparts. Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy
  • He stated that his van was missing and it was found, smashed into another vehicle, up the street.
  • It tastes like mashed potatoes, wetter. The Sun
  • At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
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