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4. Informal, silence, strike dumb, cut [s.o.] short, refute, confound, nonplus, put down, bring down, take down, Inf. take down a peg or two; dumfound, disconcert, intimidate, upset, embarrass, humiliate, mortify; shatter, cut to the quick, flatten with a word, Inf floor, Inf. step on, Inf squash like a bug, Sl. dump on; take [s.o.'s] breath away, deflate, prick [s.o.'s] balloon, take the wind out of [s.o.'s] sails, put to shame, browbeat, ride roughshod over. squashy, adj. 1. pulpy, pithy, Bot. fleshy, pulpous, pulpal, pulplike, pulpaceous; mushy, pappy, succulent, juicy.
2. spongy, squishy, soft, wet, damp, moist, oozy; plashy, marshy, boggish, boggy, quaggy, swampy, squat, v. 1. crouch, sit on one's haunches or heels, hunker, hunker down, bend, bend down, stoop, hunch, hunch over.
2. cringe, cower, shrink, lie low, crawl, creep.
3. settle, take up residence, set up housekeeping, establish oneself, put down roots; locate, encamp, pitch tent; inhabit, dwell, abide, reside.
-adj. 4. short, stubby, stubbed, stumpy, dumpy, squabbish, squabby, squatty; chunky, thick, thickset, broad, stocky, stout, stodgy; fleshy, filled-out, plump, chubby, tubby, pudgy; fat, portly, pursy.
5. crouching, stooping, bending, hunching,
squawk, v. 1. cry, call, cackle, screech, screak,
shriek, scream, scold, hoot, ululate, whoop, yawp.
2. Slang, complain, grouse, yowl, howl, yap, Sl. bellyache, Sl. bitch; bellow, roar, Sl. holler.
-n. 3. cry, call, screech, screak, shriek, scream, hoot, ululation, stridor, squall, caterwaul, blare, keen.
4. Slang, complaint, protest, whine, wail, howl, outcry, yammer, Sl. beef, Sl. kick, Sl. gripe, Sl. bellyache.
squeak, n. 1. creak, scrape, screech, twang, whine;
squeal, shriek, screak, scream, yelp, yip, yowl.
-v. 2. squeal, shriek, screak, scream, yelp, yip, yowl; pule, whine, whimper, squall, cry, cry out.
3. squeak by squeeze by, just make it. have a near miss, graze or brush by, scrape by, have a close call, escape by the skin of one's teeth.
squeal, n. 1. See squeak (def. 1).
-v. 2. See squeak (def. 2).
3. Slang, inform, tell on, tell tales, Inf. tell tales out of school, Inf. snitch, Inf. blow the whistle on, Inf. shoot one's mouth off, Inf. let the cat out of the bag, blab; Inf. turn in; All Sl. fink, peach, stool, rat, rat on, put the finger on, finger, name names, sell [s.o.] down the river, sing, weasel, squeamish, adj. 1. prudish, modest, overmodest, coy, demure, shy, reserved; prim, proper, priggish, old-maidish, Inf., Derog. nunny.
2. dainty, delicate, finical, finicky, fussy, Inf. fuddy-duddy, Inf pernickety; particular, overparticular, picky, Inf. choosy; fastidious, hard to please, critical, demanding, exacting, difficult; overcritical, hypercritical, overdemanding, overexacting; meticulous, careful, painstaking, minute, detailed, circumstantial, fine, nice, thorough.
3. easily nauseated or disgusted, queasy, qualmish, squeeze, v. 1. compress, pinch, tweak, crush, squash, Dial, squish; compact, press together, force together, constrict, constringe, astringe, tighten, contract, condense, concentrate, consolidate; shorten, reduce, retrench, curtail, cut down, cut back, cut off, cut short; decrease, diminish, subtract, subduct, narrow, bridge; abbreviate, abridge, abstract, summarize, digest, epitomize, brief, synopsize.
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