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🚪 To force out 🍋 To press liquid 💪 To get with effort 🧱 To shape by pressing
to squeeze out

to squeeze out

4.0
To push material through an opening to make a shape
  • phrasal verb
  • Specialized
translation icon : extruir
  • I scrape off the glue, squeeze out and send all the parts made.

I like the way the tube squeezes out like a little Turkey.

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Examples

  • So I'll bring it up below it and it should squeeze the tube and squeeze out the Super glue.

  • And you're going to hold them like this, put them in there together and squeeze out the colors.

  • OK, I'll squeeze out a tiny bit of that, but not all of it.

  • I like the way the tube squeezes out like a little Turkey.

    Laura Lee

  • Squeeze out four to five horizontal lines of peanut butter.

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  • Using Revlon's Color Stay Active Foundation, squeeze out a tiny amount and evenly apply the foundation.

  • It was like squeezing out acrylic paint for the first time in months.

  • But Peach light, the way I like to use this either with a small stipple brush or just my elf angle blush brush, I'll squeeze out a bit and these are nice little oops.

    Emily Noel

  • To decorate the cake, she will squeeze out bright frosting from a piping bag.

  • He decided to squeeze out the toothpaste from the tube slowly to avoid wasting any.

Synonyms

to extrude
vsto squeeze out
  • Specialized
5 7.6

To push soft material through a shaped hole to make a long piece like a pipe

describes forcing material through a plain opening rather than a shaped one

Antonyms

to withdraw
159 3.5

To take money or things out of a place where they are kept

to retract
25 5.6

To pull something back so it is no longer sticking out

How Forceful

to ram down
1 7.1
to force out
6 4.2
to squeeze out
  • Specialized
4.0
to extrude
  • Specialized
5 7.6
to press out
  • Specialized
1 5.3

Surface Forms

squeeze out infinitive
squeezed out past
squeezed out past participle
squeezing out present participle
squeezes out third person singular

Morphology

squeeze + out

The meaning 'to shape or form by forcing through an opening / to extract' is directly derived from 'squeeze' (apply pressure) plus 'out' (away from the interior), so a learner who knows both words can infer extracting or pushing liquid/material outward. This motion/force + particle construction is a common, cross-linguistic compositional pattern and should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Squeeze out is also used for pushing material through a small hole to make a shape, like squeezing toothpaste or clay through a tube to form a long line. That's why it means 'to force material through an opening to shape or make something'.