Squeezed

ppl. a. [f. SQUEEZE v.]

  1.  Subjected to pressure or compression.

1598.  Florio, Mizzi frutti, rotten, withered, bruzed or squeazed fruites, mellowe.

1599.  B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., IV. i. His face is like a squeezed orange.

1648.  J. Beaumont, Psyche, XV. lxii. That strange Pressure which the Rebel now Felt sealed sure upon his squeazed Brow.

1706.  E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 99. More sapless than a squeez’d Lemon.

1784.  Cowper, Task, VI. 672. The theatre too small, shall suffocate Its squeezed contents.

1800.  Mrs. Hervey, Mourtray Fam., I. 152. The gentleman was a little, thin, squeezed figure, with a pale peaked face.

1822.  [see ORANGE sb.¹ 1 b].

1856.  Kane, Arctic Explor., II. xxiv. 246. There are ridges of squeezed ice between us and it.

  transf.  1828.  Walker, Pron. Dict., 18/1. The squeezed sound of ee in seen.

  fig.  1898.  Daily News, 21 Feb., 4/6. British Governments … are squeezable, no doubt. But there comes a point at which even a squeezed Salisbury will turn.

  b.  With advs., as in, up.

1838.  Dickens, O. Twist, iv. A short, thin, squeezed-up woman.

1889.  Gunter, That Frenchman! xi. 132. One great, black mass of squeezed-in humanity.

  2.  Extracted or obtained by pressure. Also fig., produced with difficulty, not spontaneous.

1601.  B. Jonson, Poetaster, Prol. Take my snakes…, and eate, And while the squeez’d juice flowes in your blacke jawes, Helpe me to damne the Authour.

1683.  Temple, Mem., Wks. 1720, I. 471. Much more than any of those squeez’d or forced Strains of Wit that are in some places so much in request.

1880.  Browning, Dram. Idyls, Pan & Luna, 10. Fresh-squeezed yet fast-thickening poppy-juice.