squash
verb (used with object)
to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush.
was squashing
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past progressiveof squash.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He subsequently became embroiled in a bitter child custody fight with the child's mother; Assange's mother told the magazine this inculcated in her son a deep antipathy to bureaucracy which he believed was "squashing people."
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2010
I clocked out and left without no good-byes and stomp down the street like I was squashing bugs.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
Hermione was squashing Phineas Nigellus’s portrait back into the beaded bag; when she had fastened the clasp she threw the bag aside and raised a shining face to Harry.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Comrade Pillai had finished his avial and was squashing a ripe banana, extruding the sludge through his closed fist into his plate of curd, when Velutha knocked.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
And I wasn’t sure about Betsy, but that always made me feel just a little bit better, like I was squashing Darren Ackleman in my head, even if I couldn’t squash him in real life.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
