0 present 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: --
The nuclei were discarded from the posterior end by peristaltic squeezing.
For the existentialist, squeezing the future horizon into the here and now spells the end of self-growth.
You don't make a louder sound by squeezing and making the air go faster.
One last analogy: say you have a watermelon seed and are squeezing it between your thumb and forefinger.
If you keep squeezing harder and harder, at some point the seed will fly out.
Figure 2 shows the stretching and squeezing modes.
Both novices and expert players found the multi-user synchronous control expressive and challenging and the pulling and squeezing gestures comfortable and intuitive.
The other squeezing movements were more evenly distributed.
