MEANING
1. To press, crush, or move through something soft or wet with a soft squeezing sound.
2. A soft wet sound produced by squeezing or moving through soft material.
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Words that belong together
- squish through mud
- squish underfoot
On the page
Mud squished under their boots.
She squished the soft clay between her fingers.
They squished across the flooded lawn.
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Word forms
- Base
- squish
- Past tense
- squished
- Past participle
- squished
- Present participle
- squishing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- squish
- Present continuous
- am/is/are squishing
- Present perfect
- have/has squished
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been squishing
- Past
- squished
- Past continuous
- was/were squishing
- Past perfect
- had squished
- Past perfect continuous
- had been squishing
- Future
- will squish
- Future continuous
- will be squishing
- Future perfect
- will have squished
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been squishing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: squish; squishes; squished; squished; squishing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: squishes.
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