squeezing
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
squeezing
- present participle and gerund of squeeze
Noun[edit]
squeezing (plural squeezings)
- The act of pressing; compression.
- 2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual:
- Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.
- (chiefly in the plural) That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.
- 1849, The London Lancet, page 464:
- An exceedingly minute portion of Prussian blue suspended in water was similarly affected with muriatic acid. A portion of the squeezings of the sponge, which exhibited a greenish colour, evaporated to dryness, and ignited, left a calx […]