The word "squashed" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as a verb meaning "to press or squeeze something firmly so that it flattens or reduces in size" (Source: Merriam-Webster). Example sentence: The pumpkin was so ripe that it squashed when I picked it up.
He knows what it's like to get on the tube at 8am and get squashed, then come home at six, iron a shirt and go to bed – and he'll remind me of that now and again.
This problem has always haunted cartographers and the shapes of world maps have typically been hugely diverse, ranging from hearts......to half-circles......to squashed turnips.
We were squashed in so tightly together that I wasn't able to move them much.
She spoke of the experience of writing The Swan Book, which she began when Howard was in power "in that time a lot of dreams were squashed for the Aboriginal people".
"Everyone was squashed against the walls of the carriage, faces against the window.
But 600 passengers squashed into space for perhaps 200, each of them paying a minimum of $1,000 provides a handsome earnings multiple – a return on investment of almost 6,000%.
When Lloyd Bentsen squashed a callow Dan Quayle by telling him: "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy".
If any doubts about her intentions remained, she squashed them this week by refusing to discuss a compromise with Mr Wahid before the parliamentary vote on his future.
The government now says it has squashed the revolt, which it further claims was encouraged and supported by Iran.Yemen is predominantly Sunni but 35% of the population belong to the Zaydi Shia sect, a moderate school of Islam unique to Yemen.
He says it is nonsense to believe that oil derives from "squashed fish and putrefied cabbages".
On the other hand, if his thermodynamic calculations are correct, it is also difficult to see how crude oil could have arisen from squashed fish and putrefied cabbages.
