squeeze out

squeeze out
verb
1. force out (Freq. 1)
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Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts

• Hypernyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

2. make by laborious and precarious means (Freq. 1)
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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:
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Somebody ——s something

3. extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing (Freq. 1)
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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:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

4. form or shape by forcing through an opening
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extrude steel

• Syn: ↑extrude
• Derivationally related forms: ↑extrusive (for: ↑extrude), ↑extrusion (for: ↑extrude)
• Hypernyms: ↑produce, ↑make, ↑create
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

5. obtain with difficulty
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He eked out some information from the archives

• Syn: ↑eke out
• Hypernyms: ↑obtain
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s PP

6. cause to come out in a squirt
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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:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s something PP

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squeeze out [phrasal verb]
squeeze out (someone or something) or squeeze (someone or something) out : to force (someone or something) out of a position, place, etc.

The city's low-income residents have been squeezed out [=have been forced to leave their homes] by rising real estate prices.

These big stores have squeezed out a lot of the smaller locally owned shops.

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Main Entry: ↑squeeze

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  • squeeze out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms squeeze out : present tense I/you/we/they squeeze out he/she/it squeezes out present participle squeezing out past tense squeezed out past participle squeezed out 1) if one business or part of a system… …   English dictionary

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