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Past tense of squash

regular verb

The past tense of squash is squashed. The past participle is also squashed.

Forms of squash

Base form (V1)squash /skwɒʃ/
Past tense (V2)squashed
Past participle (V3)squashed
Present participlesquashing
Third person singularsquashes

Squashed in a sentence

  • Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
  • A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.2006, Chris Rodda, Liars for Jesus, →ISBN, page 390
  • My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.From the entry level
  • The frog got a bit squashed between the ball and the handle of the catty.2017, David Cooper, Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared. From the entry catty
  • The effect of complaining had varying emotional effects from relief “to a feeling of being squashed”.2016 February 7, Nick Clark, “Manual Labours: The Complaining Body: Exhibition explores the fine arts of moaning and listening”, in The…. From the entry finger pointing

Meaning of squash

  1. noun A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
  2. noun A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
  3. noun A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.

Full definition of squash

Questions about the past tense of squash

What is the past tense of squash?
The past tense of squash is squashed.
What is the past participle of squash?
The past participle of squash is squashed.
Is squash a regular or irregular verb?
Squash is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squash (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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