squeeze out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
force out
Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts
Types & categories
- give the axe hypernym
Sense 2 verb
make by laborious and precarious means
He eked out a living as a painter
Types & categories
- realise hypernym
Sense 3 verb
extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing
wring out the washcloth
Types & categories
- extract hypernym
Related & opposite
- constrict entails
Sense 4 verb
obtain with difficulty
He eked out some information from the archives
Types & categories
- obtain hypernym
Sense 5 verb
form or shape by forcing through an opening
extrude steel
Types & categories
- produce hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
cause to come out in a squirt
the boy squirted water at his little sister
Types & categories
- discharge hypernym
- spritz hyponym
- extravasate hyponym
Related & opposite
- ejection derivation
- water pistol derivation
- spurt derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | give the axe |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | realise |
| 3 | entails | Related & opposite | constrict |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | extract |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | obtain |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | expulsion |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | extrusive |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | produce |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | ejection |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | water pistol |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | spurt |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | discharge |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | spritz |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | extravasate |