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1. Force out
   "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts"
    
2. Make by laborious and precarious means
   "He squeezed out a living as a painter"
   - eke out
    
3. Extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing
   "squeeze out the face cloth"
   - wring out
    
4. Obtain with difficulty
   "He squeezed out some information from the archives"
   - eke out
    
5. Form or shape by forcing through an opening
   "squeeze out steel"
   - extrude
    
6. Cause to come out in a squirt
   "the boy squeezed out water at his little sister"
   - squirt, force out, eject

Derived forms: squeezes out, squeezed out, squeezing out

See also: squeeze

Type of: bring in, can [N. Amer], clear, create, discharge, dismiss, displace, draw out, earn, extract, fire, force out, gain, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, make, obtain, produce, pull, pull in, pull out, pull up, realise [Brit], realize, sack, send away, take in, take out, terminate

Encyclopedia: Squeeze out