0 past simple and past participle of squeeze --
1 to press something firmly, especially from all sides in order to change its shape, reduce its size, or remove liquid from it: --
Small businesses are being squeezed by heavy taxation.
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.
2 to get in, through, under, etc. with difficulty: --
It is remarkable that in this case, ray optics may be applicable where the filaments are squeezed into the 65 mm focal diameter of interaction.
Quality is reduced to quantity, randomness gives way to design, and magic is squeezed out.
Yet this place, squeezed too tight between the too unequal edges of new and old, falls short of the mentor's promise.
Region 4 is unsaturated, and its only role is to allow air to re-enter the gaps left by the water that has been squeezed out.
The reason for this was that they became squeezed between different interest groups.
If no matrix had been 'squeezed' out, this should correspond to approximately 85 % of the total crystallization history of the rock.
Nevertheless, some of the matrix magma probably was squeezed out during this process, concentrating the orbicules into a smaller volume.
The gut contents from each section were squeezed out, weighed and an egg count carried out on each section.
