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squeezed, ppl. a.|skwiːzd|
[f. squeeze v.]
1. a. Subjected to pressure or compression.
1598Florio, Mizzi frutti, rotten, withered, bruzed or squeazed fruites, mellowe. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. i, His face is like a squeezed orange. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche xv. lxii, That strange Pressure which the Rebel now Felt sealed sure upon his squeazed Brow. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 99 More sapless than a squeez'd Lemon. 1784Cowper Task vi. 672 The theatre too small, shall suffocate Its squeezed contents. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. I. 152 The gentleman was a little, thin, squeezed figure, with a pale peaked face. 1822[see orange n.1 1 b]. 1856Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxiv. 246 There are ridges of squeezed ice between us and it.
transf.1828Walker Pron. Dict. 18/1 The squeezed sound of ee in seen.
fig.1898Daily News 21 Feb. 4/6 British Governments..are squeezable, no doubt. But there comes a point at which even a squeezed Salisbury will turn.
b. With advs., as in, out, up.
1831M. Edgeworth Let. 30 Apr. (1971) 533 A squeezed up poke bonnetted old mother. 1838Dickens O. Twist iv, A short, thin, squeezed-up woman. 1880in I. M. Tarbell Hist. Standard Oil Co. (1904) II. 325 This constitutes the only foundation for the oft-repeated expressions ‘crushed out’, ‘squeezed out’, and ‘bulldozing’. 1889Gunter That Frenchman xi. 132 One great, black mass of squeezed-in humanity. 1951W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun 225 The long invincible arm of Progress..released him, not flung him away like a squeezed-out tube of paint, but rather..merely opening its fingers.
2. Extracted or obtained by pressure. Also fig., produced with difficulty, not spontaneous.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster Prol., Take my snakes.., and eate, And while the squeez'd juice flowes in your blacke jawes, Helpe me to damne the Authour. 1683Temple Mem. Wks. 1720 I. 471 Much more than any of those squeez'd or forced Strains of Wit that are in some Places so much in request. 1880Browning Dram. Idylls, Pan & Luna 10 Fresh-squeezed yet fast-thickening poppy-juice. |