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squashable

squashable adjective: capable of being compressed or squeezed.

Adjective

squashable (comparative more squashable, superlative most squashable)

  1. Capable of being compressed or squeezed.
    • Seatbelts, airbags, collapsible steering columns, dentable windscreens, squashable fascias and squashable front and rear ends have all added to safety, but how? To answer that you will need to recall some GCSE physics and learn more formal ways of expressing it — using equations and graphs.1996, Chris Butlin, Maureen Maybank, Physics on the move, page 31
  2. Capable of being forced into submission.
    • Katherine always tries to squash me, but, you know, I'm not the squashable sort, really." With all my naughtiness; temper, wilfulness, independence, extreme frankness and being whimsical, I listened to reason and was, in the end, submissive.1940, Madelene Victoria MacAdam, Fortune in My Own Hands, page 36
  3. Permitting a grouping of 2-cells in oppositely oriented identifiable pairs.
    • All other ergodic invariant Radon measures are squashable, and there are infinitely many such measures.2006, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Discrete and continuous dynamical systems: Volume 16

Forms of squashable

comparativemore squashable
superlativemost squashable

Origin of squashable

From squash + -able.

Questions about squashable

What does squashable mean?
Squashable means capable of being compressed or squeezed.
What part of speech is squashable?
Squashable is an adjective.

Words near squashable in the dictionary

  1. squash shot
  2. squash shots
  3. squash tennis
  4. squash the beef
  5. squashability
  6. squashable
  7. squashberries
  8. squashberry
  9. squashed
  10. squashed fly biscuit
  11. squashed fly biscuits

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