Squeeze

Definition

squeeze /skwi:z / v ၁။ (က) ဖ်စ္သည္။ ညႇစ္သည္။ squeeze a tube of toothpaste ❍ squeeze sb's hand (eg as a sign of affection or sympathy) ❍ squeeze the trigger (ie press it towards one) ❍ a doll that cries when you squeeze it ❍ He hugged and squeezed her (tight). (ခ) ~ sth (out) ေရညႇစ္ထုတ္သည္။ Squeeze your swimming-costume out and hang it up to dry. ၂။ (က) ~ sth (from/out of sth) ; ~ sth (out) (ေရ၊ အရည္) ညႇစ္သည္။ [ ဥ ] (ခံစားမႈအာ႐ံု)ငင္ထုတ္သည္။ squeeze the juice out of a lemon ❍ He took off his wet trousers and squeezed the water out. ❍ ( fig ) She felt as if every drop of emotion had been squeezed out of her. (ခ) ညႇစ္ထုတ္သည္။ squeeze paint from a tube ❍ squeeze out the glue. ၃။ ~ (sb/sth) into, through, etc sth; ~ through, in, past, etc ဖိသြတ္သည္။ နင္းစြပ္၍ဝတ္သည္။ တိုးေဝွ႔ဝင္သည္။ တိုးေဝွ႔ ထြက္သည္။ squeeze into a very tight skirt ❍ squeeze through a gap in the hedge/ through a crowd ❍ squeeze (one's way) onto a crowded bus ❍ She squeezed as many books onto the shelf as she could. ❍ There were already six people in the lift, but he managed to squeeze in. ❍ Can you squeeze past/by? ၄။ အက်ပ္ အတည္းျဖစ္ေစသည္။ ညႇစ္သည္။ High interest rates are squeezing industry hard. ❍ The banks have had their profits squeezed this year. ၅။ ~ sth (out of sb); ~ sb (for sth) ညႇစ္ထုတ္သည္။ ညႇစ္ယူသည္။ squeeze more money out of taxpayers/taxpayers for more money ❍ squeeze a promise out of sb ❍ squeeze sb for information. n ၁။ [ C usu sing ] ဖ်စ္ျခင္း။ ညႇစ္ျခင္း။ ဆုပ္ျခင္း။ give the tube another squeeze ❍ She gave my hand a gentle squeeze. ၂။ [C] ညႇစ္ယူရရိွေသာ အရည္အနည္းငယ္။ a squeeze of lemon (juice). ၃။ [sing]က်ပ္သိပ္ေသာ၊ ကတ္သီးကတ္သတ္ျဖစ္ေသာ အေျခ။ Seven people in the car was a bit of a squeeze. ❍ It was a tight squeeze but we finally got all the clothes into the case. ၄။ [C usu sing ] ေငြေၾကးစသည္ အက်ပ္႐ိုက္မႈ။ a squeeze on manufacturing industries ❍ a credit squeeze (ie restrictions on borrowing money) ❍ She's just lost her job, so they're really feeling the squeeze. ❏ put the squeeze on sb (to do sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႏိုင္ ကြက္ကို ကိုင္သည္။ ❏ squeeze sb/sth in [ PHRV ] အလုပ္မ်ားသည့္ၾကားမွ ႀကံဖန္အခ်ိန္ေပးသည္။ Dr Jackson's very busy this morning but she could probably squeeze you in between appointments. ❏ squeeze sb/sth out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ပထုတ္သည္။ an unsuccessful attempt to squeeze Egypt out of the trade negotiations ❍ be squeezed out of the market/the medal winners ❍ Colleagues on the committee had tried to squeeze her out. ❏ squeezer n သစ္သီးအရည္ညႇစ္ရန္ ကိရိယာ။ a lemon-squeezer. ❏ squeeze (sb) up (against sb/sth) [ PHRV ] တိုးတိုးေဝွ႔ေဝွ႔ ေနရာယူသည္ (သို႔) ညပ္ေနသည္။ There'll be enough room if we all squeeze up a bit. ❍ I had to sit squeezed up against the wall.

Examples

1. Ruth smiled
2. squeezing his hand affectionately.
3. I took a firm grip and squeezed tightly
4. but nothing happened.
5. She squeezed some cream onto her hands.
6. Freshly-squeezed orange juice
7. He had squeezed through a hole in the fence.
8. Passengers were trying to squeeze onto the bus.
9. We can only squeeze one more thing into the bag.
10. The letters were squeezed together so you could hardly read them.
11. Supermarkets are accused of squeezing both customers and suppliers.