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squash
1. To squeeze, beat, or flatten to a pulp or a flattened mass; to crush.
2. To put down or to suppress.
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squash (s) (noun); squash, squashes (pl)
1. A vine like plant belonging to the gourd family: "The squash Lisa grew in her garden had such long tendrils and huge leaves that she couldn't grow anything else in that area!"

"Squashes are eaten like a vegetable or used in pies."

3. Etymology: from an alteration of Narragansett askútasquash, "green vegetable that may be eaten raw".
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