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Verb
S:
(v)
squeeze out
(force out)
"Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts"
S:
(v)
eke out
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squeeze out
(make by laborious and precarious means)
"He eked out a living as a painter"
S:
(v)
wring out
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squeeze out
(extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing)
"wring out the washcloth"
S:
(v)
eke out
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squeeze out
(obtain with difficulty)
"He eked out some information from the archives"
S:
(v)
extrude
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squeeze out
(form or shape by forcing through an opening)
"extrude steel"
S:
(v)
squirt
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force out
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squeeze out
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eject
(cause to come out in a squirt)
"the boy squirted water at his little sister"