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to mushed up

to mushed up

4.8
To press something until soft, like bananas or cake
  • phrasal verb
  • /mʌʃt ʌp/
translation icon : hecho puré
  • After cooking, the chef mushed up the potatoes to create a creamy mash.

Examples

  • And today for Jackson's dinner, he is having mushed up peas.

  • This tastes like they put like mushed up baked beans on a bun.

  • Maybe coconut and like mushed up rice with the surprise in the middle.

  • OK, yeah, we're gonna now this is mushed up Twinkies.

  • I think I got the same spicy mushed up black beans.

  • So Edward is now having mushed up the banana, so he's going to add salt to this water, OK.

  • For breakfast, I had mushed up bananas mixed with yogurt.

  • She served the baby mushed up carrots to make them easier to eat.

Synonyms

mushy
vsto mushed up
18 2.0

Soft and wet like cooked vegetables or very ripe bananas

is the result after pressing or crushing into that pulpy state
squashy
vsto mushed up
1 3.6

Soft and easy to crush, often wet or spongy

is about being made pulpy by pressing or mixing, not just feeling soft
squashed
vsto mushed up
3.3

Crushed or pressed so it becomes flat and loses its shape

is instead defined by crushing that makes a soft pulpy mass rather than flattening
comminuted
vsto mushed up
  • Specialized
9.5

Material crushed into small pieces, for example when grinding spices

focuses on becoming a soft pulpy mass rather than small fragments
pulverized
vsto mushed up
  • US
5.4

A thing made into a fine powder by crushing or grinding

describes pressing into a soft pulpy state rather than into fine powder

Antonyms

whole
∞ 1.0

Complete and not broken or divided

intact
304 3.7

Whole and not damaged or missing any parts

How Pulpy

liquefied
  • Specialized
1 4.5
to mushed up
4.8

Surface Forms

mushed up infinitive
mushed up past
mushed up past participle
mushing up present participle
mushes up third person singular

Morphology

mush + up

The meaning 'squashed or crushed to a soft, pulpy state' is directly derivable from 'mush' (to press or mash into soft pulp) plus the particle 'up', which here signals completion/result. This verb+up compositional pattern is common and predictable in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would very likely understand 'mushed up'.

Etymology

Mushed up comes from the image of pressing something until it becomes mushed up and soft, like a cake stepped on or bananas squeezed in a bag. That's why it means 'squashed' or 'crushed into a soft, messy state'.