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Squeeze out   /skwiz aʊt/   Listen
Squeeze out

verb
1.
Force out.
2.
Make by laborious and precarious means.  Synonym: eke out.
3.
Extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing.  Synonym: wring out.
4.
Obtain with difficulty.  Synonym: eke out.
5.
Form or shape by forcing through an opening.  Synonym: extrude.
6.
Cause to come out in a squirt.  Synonyms: eject, force out, squirt.






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"Squeeze out" Quotes from Famous Books



... be applied with an oiled rag or cotton waste by long, light, quick strokes—light strokes, so that the pressure applied may not squeeze out an excess of oil; quick strokes, so that the leather may not absorb an undue amount of oil. The endeavor should be to obtain ...
— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... these dry grapes are separated from the rest, placed in tubs with holes perforated at the bottom. The juice is allowed to squeeze out by the mere weight of the fruit into a vessel placed beneath. After several years' keeping this liquid becomes a drinkable wine, but of course it is always very costly. This is really only a liqueur. The wine locally called "Ausbruch" is the more generally ...
— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse

... or cap to retain it in its place. Almost instant relief will be experienced; and the application is so gentle that an infant, will not get injured by it, but experience relief as well as adults. Roast a piece of lean mutton, squeeze out the juice and drop it info the ear as hot as it can be borne. Roast an onion and put into the ear as hot ...
— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs

... tablespoonful butter. Beat sugar and butter together, then add eggs. Grate rind of lemon and squeeze out juice, add last and ...
— The Community Cook Book • Anonymous

... XV. lain down to die. With Pompadourism and Dubarryism, his Fleur-de-lis has been shamefully struck down in all lands and on all seas; Poverty invades even the Royal Exchequer, and Tax-farming can squeeze out no more; there is a quarrel of twenty-five years' standing with the Parlement; everywhere Want, Dishonesty, Unbelief, and hotbrained Sciolists for state-physicians: it is ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle


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