Verb: squeeze out skweez awt- To press or force out
"Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts" - Make by laborious and precarious means
"He squeezed out a living as a painter"; - eke out - Extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing
"squeeze out the face cloth"; - wring out - Obtain with difficulty
"He squeezed out some information from the archives"; - eke out - Form or shape by forcing through an opening
"squeeze out steel"; - extrude
Derived forms: squeezes out, squeezed out, squeezing out See also: squeeze Type of: bring in, can [N. Amer, informal], clear, create, dismiss, displace, draw out, earn, extract, fire, force out, gain, give notice, give the axe [informal], give the sack, make, obtain, produce, pull, pull in [informal], pull out, pull up, realise [Brit], realize, rip out, sack, send away, take in, take out, tear out, terminate Encyclopedia: Squeeze out |