Word Finder - squeezes

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A close or tight fit.

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A difficult position.

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I'm in a tight squeeze right now when it comes to my free time.

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A hug or other affectionate grasp.

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a gentle squeeze on the arm

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A romantic partner.

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I want to be your main squeeze.

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An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.

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The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.

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The game ended in exciting fashion with a failed squeeze.

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A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.

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A traversal of a narrow passage.

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It was a tight squeeze, but I got through to the next section of the cave.

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(epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.

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The light not being good enough for photography, I took a squeeze of the stone.

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

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A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe or fee.

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To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.

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I squeezed the ball between my hands.

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To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.

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To fit into a tight place.

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Can you squeeze through that gap?

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To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.

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He squeezed some money out of his wallet.

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To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.

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I'm being squeezed between my job and my volunteer work.

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

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To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.

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Jones squeezed in Smith with a perfect bunt.

The whole weight of the tubbing is made to bear on the moss, which squeezes outwards, forming a completely water-tight joint.

His earnestness attracted the attention of Sir Henry Rawlinson, who permitted him the use of his room at the museum and placed the many casts and squeezes of the inscriptions at his disposal.

At the end of 1845 they returned home, and the results of the expedition, consisting of casts, drawings and squeezes of inscriptions and scenes, maps and plans collected with the utmost thoroughness, as well as antiquities and papyri, far surpassed expectations.

All stones must be beaten down into their beds until the mortar squeezes up into the joints around them.

The crawls didn't seem too arduous really and the squeezes not ridiculously tight.

Syd Segal has taken simple gaffs, yet squeezes every ounce of magical juice out of them for your spectator's amazement.

Henry Lloyd Thompson rubs salt between his fingers, feeling the texture of the crystals and squeezes handfuls together to judge the moisture content.

More thrashing followed in some squeezes along the rift.

In places the River Inn squeezes through tight gorges, wild and foaming in cataracts as a fine white-water river.

Likewise, the torso shouldn't fit well while the top gaps or squeezes you tightly.

A masticating juicer grinds the fruit or vegetable into a paste at very high speed and then squeezes the juice through a screen at the bottom.

In some cases the originals have been brought to Europe, in other cases only squeezes of the inscriptions.

The poison-bag lies on the side of the head between the eye and the mandibular joint and is held in position by strong ligaments which are attached to this joint and to the maxilla so that the act of opening the jaws and concomitant erection of the fangs automatically squeezes the poison out of the glands.

Its labors embraced not only Egypt and Nubia (as far as Khartum) but also the Egyptian monuments in Sinai and Syria; its immense harvest of material is of the highest value, the new device of taking paper impressions or squeezes giving Lepsius a great advantage over his predecessors, similar to that which was later conferred by the photographic camera.