(transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
Used in a Sentence
squeezed
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for squeezed.
Editorial note
The landlord is squeezed between the regulated rent and rising costs, and this doesn't lend to a very good and successful renting business.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of squeezed gathered in one view.
(transitive) To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
(ambitransitive) To fit into a tight place.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for squeezed.
verb
(transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
verb
(transitive) To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
verb
(ambitransitive) To fit into a tight place.
verb
(transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
Example sentences
The landlord is squeezed between the regulated rent and rising costs, and this doesn't lend to a very good and successful renting business.
Actually freshly squeezed orange juice is not completely void of fiber, even if you try to sieve it out.
At some point, the balloon will get squeezed and all that money is going to rush elsewhere.
Established newspapers getting squeezed out by unreliable and biased sources like blogs isn't a good thing.
Reason is that between sky-high taxes raising prices and anti-smoking propaganda lowering demand, sellers are squeezed out of a profit.
Plus, those competitors are being squeezed right now, who knows if they will be around once Uber decides to raise pricing to move towards profit.
Janestreet works where perfect is the enemy of the good, and are probably looking at registers because they have already squeezed caches for performance juice.
Airlines get squeezed by airports and manufacturers (Boeing, Airbus, etc).
When Elsevier reported 36% profit margins in 2010 according to Wikipedia[3], I have trouble believing that publishers are being squeezed too much.
The individual would get squeezed hard in a libertarian world.
He aced all his courses(even though I was a bit disgusted how he sometimes squeezed professors to give him the highest grade).
Before regulations those could be very unsafe, and superoptimized for maximum number of people (very few chairs -- more standing room, chairs squeezed togethers, and so on).
Quote examples
Among the problems is that "the channel" has squeezed out shareware.
I also dislike drinking "plain old water", but cold water with a little fresh lemon squeezed into it is delicious.
That's funny, your phrasing outlines the paradox: it's a union, yet you don't consider it part of you, but simply a "neighbour" that can be squeezed at will.
Many people in Computer Vision now consider ImageNet "squeezed" out of juice - we're good at texture recognition and when an object is in plain view, and we're now searching for harder tasks and more dynamic range with respect to human performance, in areas such as harder 3D/Spatial tasks, Image Captioning, Visual Q&A, etc.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use squeezed in a sentence?
The landlord is squeezed between the regulated rent and rising costs, and this doesn't lend to a very good and successful renting business.
What does squeezed mean?
(transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
What part of speech is squeezed?
squeezed is commonly used as verb.