| 单词 | mash |
| 释义 | mash (once / 1559 pages) 1vn 2v When you mash something, you crush it. You might, for example, mash a marshmallow by stepping on it. Recipes for banana bread almost always include an instruction to mash some bananas — in other words, you need to squish and press on them until they no longer look like bananas. A bully might mash your carefully constructed sandcastle, crushing it down to the beach. The word mash seems to be related to mix, both probably rooted in the Proto-Indo-European meik, "to mix." WORD FAMILYmash: mashed, masher, mashes, mashing+/masher: mashers USAGE EXAMPLESThe meal included traditional Thanksgiving fare such as turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, green beans and creamed corn. Los Angeles Times(Nov 29, 2016) Within the Pacific Ring of Fire, several tectonic plates mash and collide. Washington Post(Nov 25, 2016) Volunteers prepared the mashed potatoes, green beans and stuffing on site, at a commercial-grade facility. Seattle Times(Nov 28, 2016) 1 1v to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition Syn|Hypo|Hyper crush, squash, squeeze, squelch wring twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid stampcrush or grind with a heavy instrument steamrollercrush with a steamroller as if to level treadcrush as if by treading on telescopecrush together or collapse press exert pressure or force to or upon 2v reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading mash the garlic Syn|Hypo|Hyper bray, comminute, crunch, grind pulp reduce to pulp pestlegrind, mash or pulverize in a mortar millgrind with a mill break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize break or cause to break into pieces 3n a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing Hypo|Hyper sour mash a mash with optimum acidity for yeast fermentation; a mixture of old and new mash; used in distilling some whiskeys suspension a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy 4n mixture of ground animal feeds 2Hypo|Hyper chicken feed, scratch dry mash for poultry feed, provender food for domestic livestock v talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions Syn|Hypo|Hyper butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance wanton engage in amorous play vampact seductively with (someone) speak, talk exchange thoughts; talk with |
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