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    1. It looked like the perfect place to spend an evening with my fellow villagers, the farmers and shepherds and in spite of it being the middle of August, outside the wind was whipping around the mountaintop making us squash together to keep away its unexpected chill


    2. That’ll do for him - sandwiches, an apple and a plastic bottle of squash – leave it on the table for Ben to collect when he is ready


    3. Drua'd felt his anger rising once more and suddenly felt compelled to squash something with Hell's Bane


    4. Some, they said, could squash a boulder dwarf in their fist, and with one punch, entire stones were split


    5. Tender squash, gooey cheese and crunchy crackers make this a memorable side dish or a hearty main course


    6. Instead of crackers use corn flakes, replace squash with zucchini


    7. It caught this cove square on his upturned nose with enough force to squash it and make the blood flow down the front of his clothing


    8. Despite the heat wave, his garden was doing fairly well, producing tomatoes and squash by the score; various types of eggplant (which he loved to roast with oil, lightly salted); and all manner of cleome, marigolds, and gladiolus


    9. In any instance, counterfeiting is a huge liability for all governments, and they squash startups quickly


    10. She tried to squash it and look for other—less seditious—possibilities, but once acknowledged, the thought grew like a plant steeped in sun and fertilizer

    11. When Sylvia read that, she wanted to squash that waitress like a bug, but it would have done no good because Officer Vargas’ suspicions were confirmed even without the waitress’ statement; Boston PD followed up with a faxed copy of the arrested man’s mug shot, which he recognized as one of the three


    12. With our jobs we really didn’t need to play squash


    13. This has created a mentality of ‘them and us’ which has persisted from the days when police were used to squash anti-war demonstrations and street marches, such as the one against the South African's Springboks Rugby team playing matches in Brisbane in 1971


    14. ‘A giant placard,’ said the professor, ‘of an army boot hovering over a wimpy green insect just about ready to squash it flat!’


    15. Though you should squash the fool in the mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him


    16. They cultivated centli, beans, and squash like everyone else, but they also grew ground tubers


    17. He looked at me as if I were a bug that was not worth the effort to squash


    18. This was still Hotcangara country and often the woods would give way to large cleared areas already planted with centli in the mounds they favored in the north with the squash and bean plants planted on the sides of the mounds


    19. He had centli, beans, and squash, and I provided the dried meat and the chili to make us a fine meal


    20. He would plant centli, beans, squash, and melons as soon as the river flooded, then subsided

    21. Once cooked completely, reduce to low and move the chicken mixture to one side of the skillet and add one diced yellow squash, one cup shredded carrots and one cup sliced baby portabella mushrooms


    22. " Michael was pleased to hear from Philip, they had been squash partners for several years and regularly met on weekends for social get togethers


    23. The two of us were on such a racket high we even took up squash,


    24. His gruff greeting was followed by a big hug which Natalie thought would squash her ribs


    25. But being aware of it and being able to identify it when it happens is key, because when it happens…when that talker comes out, you can make the conscious decision to squash that talker and turn on the doer inside


    26. As the horses passed the tilled and irrigated fields of squash and wheat, Bors paused to gather an apron-full of ripe strawberries


    27. They were served a savory repast of roast doves and squash


    28. He was so big that his weight began to sink the ride and squash anyone in his path


    29. Once trapped, a barrage of energy should overload The Eliminator and squash it into nothingness


    30. On Wednesday afternoons Sanjay played squash or golf

    31. Today he had arranged a squash game with an associate whose special interest was invasions of privacy, and laws intended to prevent such things


    32. After all, his uncle had made a promise and a company had sponsored him, even to the point of supporting his try-outs for the squash team


    33. After discussing things with Mr 2 it became evident that we would have to squash these guys


    34. In my opinion, the squash with the best


    35. Because of its shape, about the only thing you can do with acorn squash is to bake it


    36. Cut the squash in half and remove the seeds and pith


    37. Put 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 tablespoon of brown sugar in each cavity and bake in a preheated 400° oven for 1 hour or until the squash is tender


    38. I hope they don’t pick up a summer squash when the missus wants bananas, but that’s why we have night-vision goggles


    39. As they began to scour the area I felt compelled to squash


    40. ” She stopped abruptly and laid her hands flat on the table, leaning heavily on them until the veins stood out, as though attempting to squash the unfinished sentence beneath them

    41. ‘’I am certain that our planes squash anything that the Navy has right now, Senator Lodge


    42. “Oh now that is a pain, Jeeves was my squash partner, anybody else want


    43. He would have to go straight along the axis, and he would have to time it just right, or the spokes that held the rings in place would squash him as easy as swatting a fly


    44. At the next table, we had a choice of water, squash or tea


    45. Four maybe? He was sitting on the sofa, drinking squash


    46. Place the carrots, parsnips and squash in a roasting pan spray with the non stick olive oil


    47. Stir in the squash, tomatoes, chickpeas and 3 C of water


    48. She wanted to squash the rumor that she was


    49. onions, carrots or squash;


    50. You don’t understand what’s going on, the Ombenelva could squash us with one boot, we don’t know if the other troops are anywhere near, you’re going to have to negotiate––”









































    1. Bahkmar had nursed a secret hope that the afterlife would be free of such senseless edicts of privilege, but that hope had been squashed within days of his death


    2. The slightest resistance would indeed be squashed - of that she had no doubt


    3. Your shield has squashed the threat and we are safe again


    4. Johnny’s head and repeatedly squashed it into the floor of the muddy Hollow


    5. The holiday cheer was squashed way before I made it to Collingston High


    6. Pete was certain he was about to be squashed by the fearsome giant, when a hooded man stepped forward; his eyes empty pits on his head


    7. After eventually quenching his curiosity, he squashed


    8. All across his face, spots that looked like squashed bugs glinted dully in the braziers’


    9. shoulder, which must be squashed, but with caution


    10. Still, she was surprised to see what a squashed face he had

    11. There were dark red smears on the wall opposite the bed as if someone had squashed flies in temper


    12. We did this and now we were waiting to board the train that would take us further on our journey finally we got on although we were a bit squashed we did not care the train blew its whistle and then pulled away


    13. In the light of the Flares I moved over to where the corpses lay I was right it was blast that had killed them all that looked different was that their faces looked a bit squashed in


    14. In compliance with CC policy, Jimmy could not be told the reality (that he had been repeatedly squashed to a pulp and reassembled, that his brain had not experienced a third of the ten-minute process)


    15. Squashed like a bug under a


    16. Nibbles saw that a dead leaf was stuck under the tread, squashed down by the weight of the person


    17. In the cellar beneath the galley, she found some food that she brought up in the galley and squashed on a plate with some water


    18. She placed him on the table in front of the plate and after some convincing, persuaded him eat the squashed food, but then he ate quickly


    19. ” They pulled up in front of a tiny building squashed between a beauty salon and a Chinese restaurant


    20. Derek’s feeling of release was squashed in an instant as he saw

    21. They were well squashed in


    22. Mick squirmed; he was squashed in between the


    23. Bald headed man lifted me off the floor, flung me round and squashed me against the wall by the window


    24. I squashed the man up like processed cheese


    25. The Starbucks was a small one, with tables and chairs squashed into the corners and by the windows and alongside the queue


    26. Moving finally, and making a sound deep in his throat, Shawn stabbed the cigarette out in short, angry strokes and resumed typing, banging the keys as if they were little round bugs that needed to be squashed


    27. Once again, I had to attach a torpedo holding it to the rail with my head, which could be squashed like a pumpkin by the on-rushing juggernaut


    28. up newspaper, followed by him slinging the squashed corpses over the fence


    29. In we filed, I was squashed against the end wall, and yet the people came and came and came until we were packed like streetcar passengers


    30. Hadrian's army squashed the rebellion in 135 AD, after three years of fighting

    31. The vampire bat was squashed by the impact and dropped lifeless onto the stone steps


    32. I put my right hand out and hit her in the face with my palm, feeling the crunch of breaking bone as her nose was squashed against her cheeks, feeling the spattering of blood on my arm and face


    33. The other was still wrapped protectively around her squashed nose


    34. It was Tiddles, the farm cat, and she was screaming in pain because her tail had been squashed flat


    35. trailer had squashed it flat before splitting the steel as if it were a watermelon


    36. `You mean the way Eric was squashed by the walls in his cell?' He smiled mischievously


    37. And in such moments, the human side of him was squashed to the deepest corners of his soul


    38. Squashed between a remnant store and a thread factory, walled off to provide bathing for the commons who did not have the room or the cash to heat their own water


    39. with his face all squashed up on the seatback


    40. The fox looks squashed and bloody and it appears to move as thousands of flies swarm above it

    41. Gryph was in his mid-thirties, over-groomed and exuding a sickly confidence through a chrome smile which was as charismatic as a squashed fly on a windscreen


    42. These are currently held beliefs that were never squashed by some overpowering religious force that attempted to stamp out alternate beliefs


    43. There have been cases of hogs being squashed so badly,


    44. Poop on sidewalks is often squashed by unsuspecting


    45. Anyhow, Toby was squashed to death


    46. They're squashed, and smeared against each other


    47. For a classic example; the farther comes home angry about something that has got nothing to do with the family, and the poor wife is used as a punching bag and children scatter like roaches about to be squashed


    48. would have burst like a squashed tomato


    49. when it’s squashed under the thumb of external authority


    50. my backpack and offer Cherrie half of the squashed peanut butter and











































    1. This applies to bulbs, such as onions and garlic, roots such as potatoes, beets, carrots and turnips and squashes with hard shells, such as acorn and Hubbard


    2. Too much rain won’t hurt cucumbers, squashes and melons, but could cause tomatoes to split, even the cherry varieties


    3. A special treat for me was to find that among the growing squashes was a


    4. Last spring grandpapa gave me a little plot of ground for my vegetable garden, consisting of corn, pop-corn, beans, summer squashes, Hubbard squashes, cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbages, watermelons


    5. I took most of the care of the garden myself; only when I went on a sail my grandma picked the squashes


    1. “My God…” was all that Danton could say, taking a step back and nearly squashing


    2. “My God…” was all that Danton could say, taking a step back and nearly squashing the gaoler against the wall


    3. While staggering thru the outer garden she stepped on a kalic, squashing it to uselessness and not helping her foot any on it’s tough stem


    4. squashing it into the nun’s small bag


    5. He finished squashing the last remaining suckers and then battled on, with an aching, itching knee


    6. And you’ve seen what’s happened now that the city knows the truth: Evelyn is effectively a dictator, the factionless are squashing the faction members, and I’m sure the factions will rise up against them sooner or later


    7. As the hand got covered by the blood she moved one step closer to Zeus and with the same hand she grabbed Zeus’ heart and took it out of his chest squashing it


    8. It rolled down over the baby’s face, squashing his nose as it went twisting by


    9. one squashing or negating the other as had happened in the past


    10. They were immensely strong so we attached braces front and rear and dragged them up until they fitted like a second skin; deep into bum cracks, splitting balls and squashing cocks against our bellies

    11. The room was almost dark and something large and heavy was squashing the air from my lungs


    12. I shoved everything back in the order that I'd found it, squashing the driving license on top and into the corners of the box


    13. The armed robbery was really just us squashing some up coming dealers in our area and I have already written about in a blog titled “The case and conviction that got me a 5yr sentence” so I wont touch on old ground


    14. Continue old thought patterns and expectations and attachments will produce the same results, even if you feel you are living differently within those confines; be sure you are genuinely viewing them as they are, not as you are expected to and not by simply squashing and ignoring true feelings of your true being


    15. Ben wondered what it would be like to be transported back to Ancient Earth and to competed in one of their fencing tournaments; probably something like a jet versus a biplane, or like Ben squashing a bug under the heel of his boot


    16. “You’re squashing me!” complained Horace, a touch unreasonably, as he wriggled around beneath him


    17. He considered squashing the polyhedra that was once Bliss


    18. Whatever the method, they had never been this close to squashing Davis or Tyler


    19. The howling demon continued to sink into the plowed soil, proclaiming how he would savor feeding upon their souls even as their mortal substance was being ingested and excreted, and only when the nascent Black Mage had fully subsumed himself did Caleb reach for his pants pocket, brushing and squashing away the centipedal creatures that clung there an


    20. Place a foam cup on the block and instruct the patient to gently place their foot on the cup without squashing it

    21. He (Grinder) did not care whether they called it squashing or quashing; it was all the same so long as they nipped him in the bud


    22. But I believe that usually your kids’ positive qualities come less from your making them awesome and more from just not intentionally squashing the random things they’re inherently born with that make them awesome


    23. Even the dumb little ants she’d find lumbering over his shoulders in the morning she used to scoop up and drop out the back window instead of squashing, because life is life; her mom taught her that


    24. And off she rushed, squashing ants and kicking tops off dandelions and trotting big spiky holes in flower beds as she cut across yards


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    Synonyms for "squash"

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    "squash" definitions

    any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits


    edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable


    a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets


    to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition