Meaning of "squeeze"

squeeze •

v.
• • 1. to press hard by putting on weight: umipit, ipitin, pipiin, pumipi, pipihin
  • 2. to force by pressing: pumiga, pigain
  • 3. to force into place by pressure: magsiksik, isiksik, siksikin, siksikan
  • 4. to crush, crowd: magsiksikan
  • 5. to force a way: magsumiksik, makipagsiksikan, sumiksik, maggumitgit, makipaggitgitan, gumitgit
  • 6. to press with the hand (or fingers): pumisil, pisilin

n.
• • 1. a tight pressure: pisil
  • 2. forcing out liquid by pressure: piga, pagpiga

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jail

n.
• • prison: bilangguan, bilibid, piitan, kulungan, kalaboso, preso

v.
• • to put in jail: magbilanggo, mabilanggo, ibilanggo, magbilibid, mabilibid, ibilibid, magkalabos, makalabos, ikalabos jam (1)

v.
• • 1. to press or squeeze tightly between surfaces (commonly used in the passive): maipit, mapasingit
  • 2. to push or thrust a thing hard into a place: magsiksik, isiksik, siksikan, magpasak, ipasak, pasakan
  • 3. to become caught so that it cannot work, as a machine, stick fast: magpalya, pumalya
  • 4. to fill or block up the way by crowding: magbara, bumara, makabara, mabarahan, barahan, humarang, makaharang, maharangan, harangan

crush

v.
• • 1. to break into pieces by pounding, grinding or pressing: magdurog, dumurog, durugin,
  • 2. to squeeze with fingers or hand so as to break or bruise: lumamukos, malamukos, lamukusin, lumamukot, malamukot, lamukutin
  • 3. to wrinkle or crumple: makusot, kusutin, malamukot, lamukutin
  • 4. to compress or flatten by pressure: pumisa, mapisa, pisain
  • 5. to subdue or conquer: lumupig, malupig, lupigin
  • 6. to be smashed into pieces: maluray, magkaluray-luray, lurayin
  • 7. to be squeezed (e.g. in a crowd): maipit
  • 8. to push, to cram, squeeze: magsiksikan

n.
• • a mass of people

wring

v.
• • 1. to twist with force, to squeeze hard: mamilipit, pilipitin
  • 2. to get by twisting or squeezing, to force out: magpiga, pumiga, pigain
  • 3. to get by force, effort, or persuasion: mamilit, pumilit, pilitin
  • 4. to cause pain or pity in: makabagbag, bumagbag, bagbagin

n.
• • a twist, a squeeze: pilipit, pagpilipit, piga, pagpiga

press

v.
• • 1. to use force or weight steadily in pushing, to push: dumiin, diinan, idiin
  • 2. to squeeze, e.g., the juice out of fruit: pumiga, pigain
  • 3. to squeeze something hard as a pimple, etc.: pumisa, pisain, pumisil, pisilin, pumindot, pindutin
  • 4. to make smooth, to flatten: magunat, unatin, magprinsa, prinsahin, magplantsa, mamalantsa, plantsahin

n.
• • 1. a push: diin, tuon, pindot
  • 2. a machine or establishment for printing: imprenta, limbagan, palimbagan
  • 3. newspaper: pahayagan, peryodiko, diyaryo
  • 4. the people who run the newspaper: ang mga peryodista, ang mga mamamahayag
  • 5. a cupboard for clothes, books, etc.: aparador, kabinet

pindot

v.
• • pumindot, pindutin (-um-:-in) to squeeze or crush with the fingers. Pinindot niya ang mangga kaya nalamog. She squeezed the mango that's why it became soft.

piga

v.
• • magpiga', pigain (mag-:in) to squeeze, to wring. Huwag mong pigain ang kamatis. Don't squeeze the tomato.

pisil

n.
• • squeezing with the hand pisilin (-in)

v.
• • to squeeze. Pinisil niya ang bata. He squeezed the child.