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Squished vs Squashed - What's the difference?

squished | squashed |

As verbs the difference between squashed and squished

is that squashed is past tense of squash while squished is past tense of squish.

As an adjective squashed

is squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp.

squished

English

Verb

(head)
  • (squish)

    • squish

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
  • (politics, informal, derogatory) A political moderate (term used by conservative activists in the 1980s).
  • (rfv-sense) (informal) An aromantic or platonic attraction (by analogy with crush ).
  • * {{cite newsgroup
    • , title = A Transgendered Revolution! , author = Jennifer Usher , date = 1999 November 21 , newsgroup = soc.support.transgendered , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.support.transgendered/QCupiXaOXVI/OfWtcoP2snoJ , accessdate = 2015-01-03 }}
    WHY do you think I find it so disturbing? Diane having a squish on me.
  • * 2013 , Anonymous, " The 'A' in LGBT", Counterpoint (Wellesley College), Volume 35, Issue 1, September 2013, page 8:
    • After feeling these concerns, I was happy to learn about squishes and queerplatonic partners (also known as zucchinis, for some reason unclear to me).

    Verb

    (es)
  • To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
    • The sandwich tasted fine, even though it got squished in his lunchbox.

    Derived terms

    * squishy English onomatopoeias

    squashed

    English

    Adjective

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

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (squash)