Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Squashing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Squash \Squash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Squashing}.] [OE. squashen, OF. escachier, esquachier, to
squash, to crush, F. ['e]cacher, perhaps from (assumed) LL.
excoacticare, fr. L. ex + coactare to constrain, from cogere,
coactum, to compel. Cf. {Cogent}, {Squat}, v. i.]
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
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