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squeeze out

Dictionary definition · squeeze out

verb

  1. to press or force out"Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts"
  2. make by laborious and precarious means"He eked out a living as a painter"
  3. extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing"wring out the washcloth"
  4. obtain with difficulty"He eked out some information from the archives"
  5. form or shape by forcing through an opening"extrude steel"
  6. cause to come out in a squirt"the boy squirted water at his little sister"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).