Squeeze

//skwiːz//

Synonyms for "squeeze" (332 found)

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Closest matches (67)

Strong matches (99)

Related words (166)

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nip nuisance value obstruct obstruction obstructionism occlude occlusion opposition pack parlous straits pass perks perquisite pervert pickings pickle plight plunder pork barrel power play predicament press press out pressure pretty pass pretty pickle pretty predicament prize protection pry loose from pry out public till public trough pucker push put pressure on quagmire quicksand railroad ram ram down refine rend rend from render repression resistance restraint restriction retardation retardment rip rip from roll up scrape screw setback shake shake down shut off shut out shut tight slough snatch snatch from soak solidify spoil spoils spoils of office spot squab squeak by squeak through squeeze shut squeezing squish stand in the way stealing stealings steep stew sticky wicket stifle stolen goods stop up strain the sense strait straits strangle stranglehold strangulate stricture stuff suffocate suppression swag swamp sweetheart sweetie take tear tear from thrust tight spot tight squeeze tighten tightening tightrope till torture tricky spot tweak twist the words unholy mess urge wad wad up wrench wrench from wrest wring wring from wring out

Verb(18 words)

nip pinch press pressure rack shove smush squash squelch stuff thrust thrutch tweet twinge twitch wedge wind up wring

Noun(4 words)

power play squeeze play squeezing wring

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

9 relation types

More general

38 entries

attempt clasp compel compressing compression constriction displace effort embrace embracement embracing endeavor endeavour financial condition fleece force

Showing 16 of 38 words.

Synonyms

11 entries

coerce compress credit crunch embrace extort hug pinch power play squash thrust wedge

Related terms

3 entries

squash squeegee squish

derived

38 entries

coastal squeeze credit squeeze exsqueeze me juice is worth the squeeze put the squeeze on safety squeeze short squeeze squeezable squeeze ball squeeze blood from a turnip squeeze blood out of a turnip squeeze bore squeeze box squeeze boxer squeeze chute squeeze in

Showing 16 of 38 words.

etymologically related_to

5 entries

quease squeege squise squize squizzen

has context

6 entries

baseball card games caving epigraphy mining slang

is a

5 entries

compression constriction loss lover movement

manner of

1 entries

press

related to

40 entries

alcoholic bribe bunt burden cheesecloth china difficult discard drink fee fit fruit juice grasp harass hardship hug

Showing 16 of 40 words.

Translations

258 translations across 84 languages.

Acehnese

1 entries

prah verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Albanian

1 entries

shtrëngoj verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

θλίβω verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
πιέζω verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Arabic

1 entries

عَصَرَ verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Armenian

4 entries

խցկել verb (to fit into a tight place)
ճզմել verb (to remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty)
ճզմրտուք verb (baseball: to attempt to score a runner from third by bunting)
սեղմել verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Aromanian

1 entries

stringu verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

sıxmaq verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Basque

1 entries

estutu verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Belarusian

3 entries

сці́снуць verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
сціска́ць verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
ці́снуць verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Bulgarian

4 entries

затруднение noun (difficult position)
прегръдка noun (hug or other affectionate grasp)
изстисквам verb (to remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty)
промушва се verb (to fit into a tight place)

Burmese

1 entries

ညှစ် verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Catalan

4 entries

apretar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
esprémer verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
estrènyer verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
serrar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

壓榨 verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
壓榨 verb (to fit into a tight place)
捏 verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
擠 /挤 verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Czech

2 entries

vmáčknout se verb (to fit into a tight place)
zmáčknout verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Dalmatian

1 entries

strengar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Danish

4 entries

klemme noun (difficult position)
knus noun (hug or other affectionate grasp)
trangt sted noun (caving: traversal of a narrow passage)
klemme verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Dutch

4 entries

drukken verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
drukken verb (to fit into a tight place)
klemmen verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
knijpen verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Esperanto

1 entries

elpremi verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Finnish

4 entries

puristus noun (difficult position)
puristus noun (hug or other affectionate grasp)
rypistys noun (caving: traversal of a narrow passage)
ahdistaa verb (to put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices)

French

4 entries

comprimer verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
presser verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
pressurer verb (to remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty)
serrer verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Friulian

4 entries

sfracajâ verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
strenzi verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
striçâ verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
strucâ verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Galician

3 entries

apertar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
espremer verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
retrincar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Georgian

2 entries

დაჩაგვრა verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
ჩაგვრა verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

German

4 entries

Abklatsch noun (epigraphy: an impression of an inscription)
Engpass noun (caving: traversal of a narrow passage)
Klemme noun (difficult position)
drücken verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Greek

3 entries

ζουλώ verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
στριμώχνω verb (to fit into a tight place)
σφίγγω verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Gujarati

1 entries

નિચોવવું verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Hindi

2 entries

दबाना verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
निचोड़ना verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Hungarian

4 entries

beprésel verb (to fit into a tight place)
gyömöszöl verb (to fit into a tight place)
kiprésel verb (to remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty)
szorít verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Icelandic

1 entries

þrýsta verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Ido

1 entries

klemar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Indonesian

3 entries

abklats noun (epigraphy: an impression of an inscription)
acuan kertas noun (epigraphy: an impression of an inscription)
remas verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Ingrian

1 entries

loukata verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Interlingua

3 entries

exprimer verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
premer verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
pressar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Italian

4 entries

serrare verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
spremere verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
spremersi verb (to remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty)
stringere verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Japanese

4 entries

ギュッとする noun (hug or other affectionate grasp)
スクイズ noun (baseball: the act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third)
抱きしめ noun (hug or other affectionate grasp)
拓本 noun (epigraphy: an impression of an inscription)

Kabuverdianu

1 entries

spremi verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Kazakh

1 entries

езу verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Khiamniungan Naga

1 entries

thīp verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Khmer

2 entries

កៀប verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
គាប verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Korean

3 entries

스퀴즈 noun (baseball: the act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third)
스퀴즈하다 verb (baseball: to attempt to score a runner from third by bunting)
짜다 verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

эзүү verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Latin

2 entries

comprimō verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
constringō verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Lithuanian

2 entries

spausti verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
suspausti verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

tłocyś verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Macedonian

3 entries

стиска verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
стисне verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
тиска verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Malagasy

2 entries

fia verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
mamotsitra verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Manx

1 entries

faast verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Māori

3 entries

kotē verb (to remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty)
rami verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
whakawhetē verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Navajo

1 entries

yiyiinih verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Norwegian

4 entries

klemme verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
knuse verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
kveste verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
presse verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

skvise verb (to fit into a tight place)

Occitan

4 entries

esprémer verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
esquichar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
estrénher verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
sarrar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Old Church Slavonic

1 entries

гнести verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Polish

2 entries

ściskać verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
ścisnąć verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Portuguese

4 entries

aperto noun (difficult position)
apuro noun (difficult position)
ficante noun (slang: a romantic partner)
apertar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Rapa Nui

1 entries

gatu verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Romanian

2 entries

stoarce verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
strânge verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Romansch

4 entries

schmachar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
schmacher verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
schmatgear verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
smaccar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Russian

4 entries

пожа́тие noun (hug or other affectionate grasp)
впи́хивать verb (to fit into a tight place)
впихну́ть verb (to fit into a tight place)
вти́скивать verb (to fit into a tight place)

Sanskrit

1 entries

पीडयति verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Sardinian

4 entries

atipriare verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
ispremiare verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
tilpiare verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
tirpiare verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Scots

1 entries

pran verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

stiska noun (difficult position)
zagrljaj noun (hug or other affectionate grasp)
stískati verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
stȉsnuti verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Slovak

1 entries

stisnúť verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Slovene

2 entries

stiskati verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
stisniti verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Spanish

4 entries

apuro noun (difficult position)
crisis noun (difficult position)
apremir (disused) verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
apretar verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Sundanese

1 entries

rames verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Swedish

4 entries

klapp noun (hug or other affectionate grasp)
kläm noun (difficult position)
knipa noun (difficult position)
kram noun (hug or other affectionate grasp)

Tamil

1 entries

பிழி verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Tausug

1 entries

puga verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Tetum

1 entries

buti verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Thai

1 entries

บีบ verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Tocharian B

1 entries

klup verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Tooro

2 entries

kamuura verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
miga verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Tumbuka

1 entries

kukama verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Turkish

2 entries

sıkmak verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
sıkıştırmak verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Tày

1 entries

bọp verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Ukrainian

4 entries

сти́скувати verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
сти́снути verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
стиска́ти verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
ти́снути verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

tłóčić verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Vietnamese

3 entries

bóp verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
ép verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
đè verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Welsh

1 entries

gwasgu verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Zazaki

2 entries

pıloğnen verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)
taden verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Zealandic

1 entries

niepe verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

ǃXóõ

1 entries

tʻkxʻām verb (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once)

Sample sentences

44 total sentences available.

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The bank rate cut is expected to relieve the severe financial squeeze that has hit industry.

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He is really putting the squeeze on me.

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Small enterprises are feeling the squeeze of inflation.

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She tried to squeeze the juice out of the orange.

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