squash

• vt. 抑制する；平らにする；黙らせる
• vi.ぎゅっと握る；ぎゅっと音を立てる；ぎゅっと押し込む
• n.スカッシュ；スクイーズ；きしむ；カボチャ植物；ジュース飲料

古フランス語のesquasserから、ヴァルガ?ラテン語の*exquassare, 押しつぶす、砕く、ex-, outward, quassare, 粉砕する、に由来し、語源的にはquashと同じ。

squash

squash: see quash

squash (v.)

"to crush, squeeze," early 14c., squachen, from Old French esquasser, escasser "to crush, shatter, destroy, break," from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + quassare "to shatter" (see quash "to crush"). Related: Squashed; squashing.

squash (n.1)

gourd fruit, 1640s, shortened borrowing from Narraganset (Algonquian) askutasquash, literally "the things that may be eaten raw," from askut "green, raw, uncooked" + asquash "eaten," in which the -ash is a plural affix (compare succotash).

squash (n.2)

1610s, "act of squashing," from squash (v.). The racket game called by that name 1899; earlier (1886) it was the name of the soft rubber ball used in it.

1. In the squash court his chief aim is to flatten me.

壁コートでの彼の主な目標は私を負かすことだ。

2.Amazing place he 's got there- squash courts、swimming pool、jacuzzzi、the works.

彼のその場所は本当にすばらしい--壁球場、プール、マッサージ風呂、すべてそろっている。

3. Squash was once thought to offer all-round fitness.

スカッシュをすることで全身性トレーニングができると考えられていた。

4.He hurt his back playing squash .

彼はスカッシュをしたときに背中に怪我をした。dd>

a bottle of orange squash