0 to press something firmly, especially from all sides in order to change its shape, reduce its size, or remove liquid from it: --
"Oh, Andrew," she said, as she squeezed him in her tight embrace.
figurative The studio is using all sorts of marketing tricks to squeeze as much profit from the movie as they can.
He reloaded the gun, took aim, and then squeezed (= pulled back) the trigger.
Once he had finished cleaning the floor, he squeezed the cloth out.
As she waited to go into the exam, he squeezed her hand (= pressed it affectionately with his hand) and wished her good luck.
1 to get in, through, under, etc. with difficulty: --
2 If you are squeezed by financial demands, they cause you financial problems: --
Small businesses are being squeezed by heavy taxation.
5 a situation in which people or things are pushed or forced into a small space: --
The bar fell and my eyes squeezed tightly shut.
The ponderomotive laser light pressure squeezes out a portion of electrons from the plasma layer near the critical density area.
An event that, through constant media attention, feels as if all the emotion has already been squeezed from it.
The gut contents from each section were squeezed out, weighed and an egg count carried out on each section.
Where necessary, contents of the body cavity were squeezed out using a fine forceps.
Thus, economic and democratic reforms are both possible if they can be squeezed into this unique time period.
Moreover, inflation depressed incomes, depriving manufacturers of customers for their efforts and squeezing savings that might have fostered capital growth.
Nevertheless, some of the matrix magma probably was squeezed out during this process, concentrating the orbicules into a smaller volume.