squeeze out

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verb

1. force out (Freq. 1)
- Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts
• Hypernyms:
displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss,
give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. make by laborious and precarious means (Freq. 1)
- He eked out a living as a painter
• Syn:
eke out
• Hypernyms:
gain, take in, clear, make, earn,
realize, realise, pull in, bring in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing (Freq. 1)
- wring out the washcloth
• Syn:
wring out
• Hypernyms:
extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out
• Entailment:
compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. form or shape by forcing through an opening
- extrude steel
• Syn:
extrude
• Derivationally related forms:
extrusive (for: extrude), extrusion (for: extrude)
• Hypernyms:
produce, make, create
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
5. obtain with difficulty
- He eked out some information from the archives
• Syn:
eke out
• Hypernyms:
obtain
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
6. cause to come out in a squirt
- the boy squirted water at his little sister
• Syn:
squirt, force out, eject
• Derivationally related forms:
ejection (for: eject), squirt (for: squirt), squirter (for: squirt)
• Hypernyms:
discharge
• Hyponyms:
spritz, extravasate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP