squashed

comparative more squashed · superlative most squashed

1. squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp

   Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking-sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair.

   1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC

2. suppressed or silenced

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of squash

   He dropped his cigarette on the sidewalk, shaking his head as he squashed the butt out with the heel of his shoe.

   2001, Jon Brasher, The Color of Moonlight, page 37