(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush.
(v. t.) To force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) The act of one who squeezes; compression between bodies; pressure.
(n.) A facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(2) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
(3) The court ruling is just the latest attempt to squeeze Abdi off her land.
(4) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(5) In the most hard-hitting attack on the Labour leader by any of his MPs since Ukip squeezed the party’s vote in the Heywood and Middleton byelection, Field accused Miliband of “pissing while Rome burns”.
(6) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(7) The Queen Boat case was one of three big sex stories that helped to squeeze bad news out of the papers around the same time.
(8) Verbal feedback training consisted of instructing the patient to squeeze the vaginal muscles around the examiner's fingers and providing her with verbal performance feedback.
(9) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(10) A reduction in anal resting pressure was detected in the faecally incontinent geriatric patients but squeeze pressure did not differ significantly from that found in the other geriatric patients.
(11) The head of the TUC, Frances O'Grady, said she supported the aims of the foundation, but was wary of endorsing changes that allowed retailers to squeeze under the wire without raising the pay of the lowest-paid workers.
(12) Either way, both methods see the smugglers try to squeeze every last drop of profit from their clients.
(13) "The forces of capitalism are squeezing out anything that doesn't focus on extracting as much surplus value as it can from people and the planet.
(14) We're all in this together, says George Osborne, and with workers' wages lagging inflation, it is only fair that those who don't have to toil for a living should share in the squeeze.
(15) They are being squeezed, they don’t have enough of a productive economy and also taxes will slow down very, very dramatically,” said Satchu.
(16) 'Squeeze' with the left hand followed by 'flex' with the right elbow.
(17) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
(18) The Foundation Trust Network, which represents about 200 top hospital groups, has warned in a letter to the deputy chief executive of the NHS that, despite claims that hospitals should expect to make savings of 4% next year, in reality many have been forced to squeeze budgets by an average of 6.3%.
(19) But the squeeze on living standards also cited has been exacerbated by the chancellor's January VAT rise, and the Bank clearly sets little store by his much-vaunted "plan for growth".
(20) It would be a mistake to rush it.” But, while revealing disappointing trading figures for the Christmas period and a gloomy outlook for 2017 , Wolfson said he did not think Brexit jitters were stopping people from shopping: “It is more the fact that incomes are likely to be squeezed.” Next's gloomy 2017 forecast drags down fashion retail shares Read more Wolfson was one of a handful of senior business leaders to openly back Brexit but has said in the past that the referendum vote was about UK independence, not isolation, and the country should be aiming for “an open, global-facing economy”.
Wringer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
(n.) A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Review of the records at Milwaukee Children's Hospital between the years 1973 and 1983 revealed that of the 99 wringer injuries seen, 80 of 99 patients were radiographed and only five fractures were diagnosed.
(2) A clinical survey of 92 upper extremity wringer injuries over the past four years at the Bexar County Hospital are presented.
(3) Of these fractures only two were attributable to the wringer device and these two required therapy.
(4) Few cities in the developed world can have been put as comprehensively through the wringer as Yubari, on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido and known in its heyday as the capital of coal.
(5) I thought I went through the wringer last week against Derby.
(6) Ninety-two upper extremity compression injuries secondary to washing machine wringers were reviewed.
(7) While the number of wringer washing machine injuries is declining due to the increasing use of automatic washing machines, these injuries still occur.
(8) Paxman said Entwistle was "put through the wringer" during the David Kelly affair after the programme's science editor Susan Watts told him that the weapons inspector was a source of her reports on Iraq's military capabilities.
(9) "This is a little bit about Thai navy payback where Phuketwan has been a thorn in the side of the navy for many years in the handling of the Rohingya and the navy is determined to put them through the wringer," Robertson said.
(10) It opened in 1972, a few months before a break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at Washington’s Watergate hotel and office complex led to Woodward and Bernstein’s revelation of crime and cover-up at the highest level of government (“Katie Graham’s gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that’s published,” US attorney general John Mitchell fumed).
(11) Wednesday January 16 2013 Who says Guardian readers are a bunch of sandal-wearing hand-wringers knitting their own organic hemp underwear and obsessing about the origins of their lentil homebrew?
(12) He also had a remarkable owner behind him in the Post’s proprietor, Katharine Graham – famously warned early on in the saga by the White House that she would “get her tit caught in a big fat wringer”.
(13) In this report we describe our experience with the gastroschisis wringer clamp (GWC).
(14) Jeremy Paxman has recalled how his former boss was "put through the wringer" after Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, revealed to him that the weapons inspector was a source of her reports on Iraq's military capabilities.
(15) This, after all, is the director who put Isabelle Huppert through the wringer in The Piano Teacher, foreshadowed the rise of Nazism in The White Ribbon and douses the lights altogether with Amour.
(16) Like many who came to power under the Blair-Brown aegis, she has learned to say nothing that hasn't already gone through the "will this win votes" wringer.
(17) The GWC is an autoclavable, 140-g, aluminum alloy device reminiscent of an old wringer washing machine.
(18) He points to the first appearance of the witch Tiffany Aching, a central character in his young adult titles – the precocious nine-year-old puts various fairy stories through the wringer of her enquiring mind.
(19) Down the years the director has been accused of pushing his actors – and particularly his female actors – too hard; of feeding them through the wringer and all but sniggering at their discomfort.
(20) If all you knew of Tracey Thorn was her music, you might think she had spent the last 30 years being squeezed through the emotional wringer.