[
US
/ˈskwɑʃ/
]
[ UK /skwˈɒʃ/ ]
[ UK /skwˈɒʃ/ ]
NOUN
- a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
- edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
- any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
VERB
-
to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
crush an aluminum can
squeeze a lemon
How To Use squash In A Sentence
- When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu. NYT > Home Page
- Basically, it is a fish stew mixed with squash, sweet potatoes, okra, tamarind, and different kinds of peppers.
- Place the squash on a warm serving platter and cover. Times, Sunday Times
- The golden butternut squash velouté with escargot needed to be thicker to live up to its name, and more complex to live up to its price tag.
- ‘Sewing a squash ball into the back of their pyjamas or nightie might sound like a wind-up but it's effective because it stops people from sleeping on their back,’ he said.
- It contains fried tofu, mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, onion and squash all simmered in a spicy sauce and sprinkled with scallions and sesame. Bento #120: Korean stew « Were rabbits
- Other new ingredients were Agretti, corky-fruited water dropwort, bilwa or Belfruit, and squash blossoms. Weekend Herb Blogging Year In Review: Weeks 21-30, and a Recipe
- Throwing himself into one of the office's numerous squashy chairs, Irvine admits to a last - minute attack of the collywobbles.
- Heavy equipment or materials such as pallets of payers can squash a tree's shallow surface roots.
- Place a buttercup squash tart on a plate with a serving of salad next to the tart.
