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Squashed vs Squushed - What's the difference?

squashed | squushed |

As verbs the difference between squashed and squushed

is that squashed is (squash) while squushed is (squush).

As an adjective squashed

is squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp.

squashed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp
  • suppressed or silenced

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (squash)

    • squushed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (squush)

    • squush

    English

    Verb

    • Noun

    (squushes)
  • A squashing or squelching sound.
  • * 1949 , William Beebe, High Jungle
    • A few yards downstream was a stretch of sloping rock and moss, and here all clamor ceased: only the close-placed ear could detect the muffled squush .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A squashing or squelching sound.
  • * 1942 , Elizabeth Vernon Hubbard, Your Children at School, How They Adjust and Develop
    • Some men in the cellar were mixing mortar in trays with hoes. We watched them put sand and cement and lime and water together. Squush !
  • * 1972 , Charlotte Baker, Cockleburr Quarters
    • They looked down at the ants and other bugs they saw and felt enormously big and powerful. They pretended the bugs were people. "Got me a dozen!" Squush .