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Squash

Any of various bushy or vining plants of the genus Cucurbita, having unisexual flowers and fleshy edible fruit with a thick rind when mature.
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Syrup

In cooking, a syrup or sirup (from Arabic: شراب‎; sharāb, beverage, wine and Latin: sirupus) is a condiment that is a thick, viscous liquid consisting primarily of a solution of sugar in water, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars but showing little tendency to deposit crystals. Its consistency is similar to that of molasses.
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Squash

The fruit of any of these plants, eaten as a vegetable.
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Syrup

a thick, sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in boiling water, often used for preserving fruit.
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Squash

The act or sound of squashing.
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Syrup

a wig
he has been bald for the past twenty years, his shame concealed by a syrup of some opulence
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Squash

Something that has been squashed.
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Syrup

A thick, sweet, sticky liquid, consisting of a sugar base, natural or artificial flavorings, and water.
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Squash

A crushed or crowded mass
a squash of people.
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Syrup

A thick, sugary liquid made by boiling down or otherwise concentrating plant sap, juice, or grain extracts.
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Squash

(Sports) A game played on a four-walled court by two or four players who use long-handled rackets to hit a small rubber ball against the front wall, with play stopping if the ball bounces twice on the floor or does not reach the front wall after a stroke. Also called squash rackets.
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Syrup

A concentrated solution of sugar in water, often used as a vehicle for medicine.
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Squash

Chiefly British A citrus-based soft drink.
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Syrup

Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring.
maple syrup
pancake syrup
peaches in syrup
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Squash

To beat, squeeze, or press into a pulp or a flattened mass; crush.
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Syrup

(by extension) Any viscous liquid.
cough syrup
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Squash

To put down or suppress; quash
squash a revolt.
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Syrup

A wig.
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Squash

To silence or fluster, as with crushing words
squash a heckler.
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Syrup

(transitive) To convert or process into syrup.
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Squash

To become crushed, flattened, or pulpy, as by pressure or impact.
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Syrup

(transitive) To add syrup to.
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Squash

To move with a splashing or sucking sound, as when walking through boggy ground.
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Syrup

(transitive) To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.
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Squash

With a squashing sound.
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Syrup

Same as Sirup, Sirupy.
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Squash

(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
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Syrup

a thick sweet sticky liquid
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Squash

(British) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
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Squash

A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
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Squash

(biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide flat, rectangular piece of glass, covering it and applying pressure.
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Squash

Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
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Squash

Something unripe or soft.
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Squash

A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
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An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
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Squash

A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
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Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
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Squash

Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
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Squash

Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
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Squash

Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
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Squash

(botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
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Squash

Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
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Squash

(culinary) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
We ate squash and green beans.
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Squash

Muskrat.
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Squash

(transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
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Squash

To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
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Squash

(transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
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Squash

An American animal allied to the weasel.
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Squash

A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
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Squash

Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod.
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Squash

Hence, something unripe or soft; - used in contempt.
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Squash

A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
My fall was stopped by a terrible squash.
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Squash

A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets; - called also squash rackets.
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Squash

To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
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Squash

any of numerous annual tendril-bearing trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
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Squash

edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
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Squash

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

to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;
crush an aluminum can
squeeze a lemon
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