from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
squeeze out
v 1: 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" [syn: {eke out}, {squeeze out}]
3: extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing; "wring out the
washcloth" [syn: {wring out}, {squeeze out}]
4: obtain with difficulty; "He eked out some information from
the archives" [syn: {eke out}, {squeeze out}]
5: form or shape by forcing through an opening; "extrude steel"
[syn: {extrude}, {squeeze out}]
6: cause to come out in a squirt; "the boy squirted water at his
little sister" [syn: {squirt}, {force out}, {squeeze out},
{eject}]