Definition of Squeeze

Squeeze

The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.

Pressure or constraint used to force the making of a gift, concession, or the like; exaction; extortion.

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship.

Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush.

To force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.

To press; to urge one's way, or to pass, by pressing; to crowd; -- often with through, into, etc.; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd.

The act of one who squeezes; compression between bodies; pressure.

A facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone.

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Squeeze Quotations

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
Wayne Dyer

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
Thomas Merton

The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
Temple Grandin

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
Tommy Lasorda

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.
Cher

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.
Dean Koontz

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Karl Kraus

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.
Lillie Langtry

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.
Jason Kidd

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.
Richard Simmons

I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
Utada Hikaru

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
Ridley Scott

I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.
Roma Downey

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
Vaclav Klaus

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
Eberhard Weber

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.
Dorothy Fields

Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements.
Mark Dayton

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.
Clint Black

I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple.
Moe Howard

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Janet Flanner

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.
Dennis Kozlowski

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Squeeze Translations

squeeze in Afrikaans is druk
squeeze in Danish is trykke
squeeze in Dutch is drukken, dringen, persen, knellen
squeeze in Finnish is puristaa
squeeze in French is serrer
squeeze in German is verdichten, auspressen, pressen
squeeze in Italian is premere
squeeze in Latin is premo
squeeze in Portuguese is aperto

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