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squeeze out in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. cause to come out in a squirt
    "the boy squirted water at his little sister"
    squirt  force out  squeeze out  eject 
  2. obtain with difficulty
    "He eked out some information from the archives"
    eke out  squeeze out 
  3. make by laborious and precarious means
    "He eked out a living as a painter"
    eke out  squeeze out 
  4. form or shape by forcing through an opening
    "extrude steel"
    extrude  squeeze out 
  5. extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing
    "wring out the washcloth"
    wring out  squeeze out 
  6. force out
    "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts"
    squeeze out 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


squeeze out in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) (transitive) To force a substance out of a container by squeeze/squeezing the container
  2. (verb) (transitive) To force a competitor out of one of a limited number of winning positions by taking over that position or a higher one
  3. (verb) (transitive) To obtain a difficult victory in a competition
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