Definition of "squashing" []

• Present participle of squash. (verb)
• Belittling. (adjective)
• The act by which something is squashed; a pressing. (noun)

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• "Why is the GOP traditionally so interested in squashing individual liberties, and so adamant about not extending any sort of helping hand to any other than the already wealthy?"
• "Over the last decade, Saeed Mortazavi has jailed dozens of journalists and reformist politicians and was instrumental in squashing the opposition Green Movement after last year's presidential election."
• "Vance, Hull-squashing is an old skeet shooter's trick to break the concentration of other shooters."