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

to squeeze out

2 4.9
To get something with great effort
  • phrasal verb
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  • For decades, they have pored over Mariner 10 data in an effort to squeeze out satisfactory answers.
  • squeeze out information
  • squeeze out every ounce
  • squeeze out more

Sounds like you're busy though, but I'm sure you got to squeeze out time to.

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Examples

  • So many developers are trying to squeeze out some more money, to the extent that games clearly more suited to being single-player are being pushed into unsuitable forms.

    Blog text (19)

  • She worked tirelessly to squeeze out the best performance from the outdated software.

  • Wall Street wants as much of that dollar as they can squeeze out with fees.

  • I know how to keep books, how to squeeze out a profit where nobody else sees the possibilities.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • It's a balancing act, but one that can help you squeeze out a little extra juice when you really need it.

    Blog text (15)

  • I don't think we as entrepreneurs and business people and the world have fully squeezed all the value out of sound.

    GaryVee

  • The team had to squeeze out every bit of data from the experiment to understand the results.

  • The journalist tried to squeeze out the truth from the reluctant politician during the interview.

Synonyms

to express
vsto squeeze out
12 7.6

To force liquid out of something by squeezing it

is used for obtaining by great effort rather than by machine extraction
to eke out
vsto squeeze out
11 7.5

To get or make a small amount of something last with great difficulty

is used for obtaining or producing by great effort rather than stretching scarce supplies
to force out
vsto squeeze out
6 4.2

To push something out with effort or pressure

is about obtaining or producing through great effort rather than expelling
to press out
vsto squeeze out
1 4.1

To get liquid from something by squeezing it

is focused on obtaining by great effort generally not only by mechanical force

How Difficult

to force out
6 4.2
to squeeze out
2 4.9
to extract
166 3.9
to obtain
619 2.6
to get
∞ 1.0

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 comes from the image of pressing a sponge or fruit so the last drops come out. So when you press someone with questions until they tell you something, you 'squeeze out' the information, which is why it means 'to obtain something with difficulty'.