mashverb [ T ]
uk/mæʃ/us/mæʃ/to crush food, usually after cooking it, so that it forms a soft mass:
Mash the potatoes and then mix in the butter and herbs.
mainly US informal to violently crush part of a body or an object:
His face was badly mashed up in the accident.
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Preparing food
- butter
- can't boil an egg idiom
- caramelize
- carve
- clarified
- cube
- dice
- fold
- knead
- leaven
- liquidize
- malt
- marinade
- salt
- spice
- stuffed
- sweeten
- thicken
- thin
- whip sth up
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Squeezing and grinding
Phrasal verb(s)
mash up sth
mashnoun [ U ]
uk/mæʃ/us/mæʃ/UK informal→ mashed potatoes :
sausage and mash
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Forms of potatoes as food
- aloo
- alu
- baked potato
- bubble and squeak
- chip
- crisp
- croquette
- finger chip
- French fry
- fries
- hash browns
- jacket potato
- mashed potatoes
- potato chip
- potato salad
- rösti
- shoestring potatoes